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...excavations at Troy with Dr. Schliemann, and although Dr. Schliemann's name is more familiar in connection with Troy, it was really Dr. Dorpfeld's technical skill and wide experience that made the former's works possible. He next undertook with Schliemann excavations at Tiryns, Orchomenos, and in Crete; and, after Schliemann's death, returned to complete the work at Troy. His most important work after this has been in Greece, especially in and around Athens. As a result of his researches the buildings of the Acropolis appear to the minds's eye almost in their original splendor...
...carried on in the freshman class. The speaker said that when the distinctly Greek civilzation passed away, Homer fell into disuse and Virgil took his place. For little was known about Homer at that time and the translations were poor. About this time spurious poems by Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian appeared and for a long time these were thought more trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were famed, not the Greeks as in Homer, and the number of persons who were killed was estimated at 676,000 Trojans, and 886,000 Greeks...
...year or more, engaged in literary work. A friend who recently visited him there describes him as haunting the library of the British Museum day after day. Last winter he spent in Egypt and the East in company with Percy Anderson, the well-known English artist. An article on Crete, with illustrations by Mr. Anderson, will soon appear in the British Illustrated, the result of materials collected during this journey. Mr. Fullerton has an article also in the Fortnightly Review for February, entitled "English and Americans." -Advertiser...
Doane College, at Crete, Neb., has received a bequest of $13,000 from the estate of David Whitcomb, of Worcester, Mass., and the citizens of Crete have contributed a fund of $15,000 to endow a chair of natural science...
...Stillman, correspondent of the London Times, has been murdered by a party of Arnauts near Ipek in Albania. He was formerly Amercan consul in Crete...