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...also decided to award class numerals to the first of the three upperclass crews in the Beacon Cup races...
...class crew championship race for the Beacon Cup will be rowed at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon up-stream over the 1 and 7-8 mile course from the Union Boat Club to Longwood bridge. The winning eight will be awarded their class numerals and the names of the men will be inscribed on a silver platter. The crew will also be sent to compete in the Henley regatta at Philadelphia on May 26. The officials have not as yet been appointed...
...Beacon Cup has been a College rowing trophy for almost 50 years, although it has been several times neglected for a number of years. It appears to have been first offered in 1858, as a prize for the "Beacon Cup Regatta", in which a Harvard crew won from seven others in a three-mile race. In 1866 the cup was made the annual challenge prize for the winners of the spring class races. The cup is a large silver goblet covered with the names of the first nine winning crews, from 1866 to 1874 inclusive. In the three years following...
...first of the series of the trilogy, the hero's return from Troy is anxiously awaited at Argos. The play opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form the chorus, now file through...
During the song, Clytaemnestra comes from the palace to make a thank-offering to the gods, and as the chorus concludes its chant, she describes in a magnificent passage, the progress of the beacon fires from peak to peak. Clytaemnestra then enters the palace, and the first episode comes to a close...