Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various times in putting the ball in play which protracted the game; for all that, however, the play was interesting and promised well for the future. The work of the freshmen, while not of course nearly so good as we expect later in the season, was encouraging. The chief thing to be regretted about the match was the small number of men who were in attendance. The freshmen certainly ought to show more interest in the work of their eleven. It must be remembered that as a general thing training is after all dreary work and that a little encouragement...
...place. The old temple was burned in 548. No one knows how long it had been built nor exactly how it was constructed. Only a single chamber, the one containing the oracle, was saved from the fire and this was built into the new temple. Apollo was the chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo. People of all nations worshiped at the shrine and so many presents were given that in the time of Pliny, after Delphi had been plundered many times, there remained three thousand. The excavations so far have revealed...
...pursue his education in the best schools of Athens. The period of his literary activity began soon after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, when he delivered his famous speech against Eratosthenes. It lasted about thirty years, during which time he wrote over two hundred speeches. The chief characteristic of Lysias style was his ability to adapt the speech to the character of the person who delivered...
...year naturally had a depressing effect upon the spirits of Harvard men. The summer now passed, however, it is time that this feeling should be forgotten and that we should freely co-operate with those who have our athletic interests most at heart. Football, of course, is now the chief athletic interest, and to football we first turn our attention. While the captain of the eleven has done and is doing his best, he must have your assistance in order that he may succeed. Subscriptions are necessary, but subscriptions are not all. Your presence is needed on the field...
...object of the change is to obtain better service and more neatness. The employment of a janitor-in-chief in whom all the responsibility will be centralized and to whom alcomplaints can be made, will, it is hoped, bring about the end in view...