Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brief for the Affirmative.G. GLEASON and E. M. GREGORY.Best general references: Andrew D. White, letter, Boston Herald, July 16; Forum, September, 1896; speech Bourke Cochran, Kansas City Star, October 8; editorial, Boston Herald, August 21; Harper's Weekly, August 8; Public Opinion, September 17, October 8; Platform, St. Louis Convention; Platform, Indianapolis Convention...
...finally the destruction of the citadel. Passing to Mycenae, he carried his audience through the well-known gate of the Lions to the graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos...
Professor Dorpfeld gave a brief account of the situation of Olympia, and threw on a screen pictures and plans of the buildings within the sanctuary, describing the great columns and the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus and the construction of the temple of Hera, the oldest temple in Greece. This temple was originally of wood, but was renewed little by little in marble. The careful study of its remains has finally solved the perplexing question of the origin of the Doric style of architecture. The pictures showed very clearly the varying sizes of the columns and that...
...Brief for the Affirmative.Best general references: Taussig: Silver Situation; Schurz-Altgelt Debate, Boston Transcript, Sept. 21; Ex-President Harrison: Speech, Carnegie Hall, N. Y.; Bourke Cochran: Speech, Sound Money League Publication; Ex-Senator Edmunds: Speech, Phila. Ledger, Sept. 8; Forum, Aug. Sept. Oct. 1896; Platform, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896; Speeches of William J. Bryan, July...
...Troy which Homer celebrates, the citadel of Priam, a real city? And where did it lie?" With these questions Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art Museum, last night, on the "Excavations at Troy." He referred to the fact that different answers had been given to these questions both in antiquity and in the present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed...