Word: containedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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At this time Athens was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants consisting principally of Turks, Greeks and Albanians. The city was poor and squalid, with narrow lanes, and no taverns for the accommodation of travelers. The houses were mean yet they contained many historic remains. The Acropolis was a...
The Boston Post of yesterday contained a long letter from John Codman 2d, on the foot ball controversy. We quote the most pertinent passages:
The Persian invasion marked a great period in the art of sculpturing the monuments, as well as in many other things. The style became freer, and the designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has...
Last Saturday's New York Herald contained an article. entitled "Harvard's Way of Dolng it," according to which a member of the Harvard nine was in Phi adelphia last week trying to get Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvanu to leave his college and enter Harvard to play on...
The Sunday Globe contained an article on the Harvard, Yale and Princeton elevens, enumerating the chances of each for winning the championship. It showed a careful study and observation of the subject.