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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which stood in the time of Christ...
...implies in every instance that Christ was crucified outside the walls. The Bible accounts point out also that the site was conspicuous from the city, for it could be seen from afar; that it was near a highway, for the passers by stopped and railed at Christ on the cross; that it was nigh unto the city;" that it was close by a garden, in which was a sepulchre, in which they laid Christ; that the place was called "the place of a skull...
...moments of first, sweet love, - when your girl yields at last." There are two or three short sporting articles, "A Day with Quail in North Carolina," "A Blank Day," and others. They are good though the latter is spoilt by too many love affairs. There is an article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written and is decidedly above the average of the other articles of the number. The poetry is no credit to the authors, "A Hint to Ye Goode Sainte Valentine" is weak in sentiment, metre, and spelling, while "Elemental Passion" is only passable...
Among the baseball men in the Law School are Bowers the 'varsity pitcher: Graves the football player and a member of the Trinity nines of the past three years; O' Neil, the crack first baseman of the Holy Cross team; Farrell, second baseman on the Exeter nine for the past two years; Norton, last year's short stop on the Yale team; D. W. Parsons, an old third baseman on the Colby University team and for two years a member of the New England League; Foster, another old Colby player; Redding, of last year's Syracuse University nine, and others...
This little book contains athletic records in baseball, football, cycling, turf, prize ring, rowing, yachting, intercollegiate athletics, interscholastic athletics, lawn tennis, cricket, track athletics, cross country running, billiards and pool...