Word: dig
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slab at the British Museum. In recognition of his work the Greek authorities have presented the original fragment and a cast of the whole slab to the American school. The American excavations at Ikarie and Starnata have also yielded good results, and the government has given permission to dig at three other important places, but lack of funds prevents our school from taking the lead of all the institutes of Athens...
...Schliemann has gone to Egypt with Dr. Virchow. He is anxious to discover the grave of Alexander the Great, but the place where it is supposed to be is covered by a mosque. Undaunted by this fact, Dr. Schliemann intends to dig a tunnel, or have the whole building moved, after the American method...
...found everywhere on this continent. We can gain but little knowledge of the less civilized nations from the conscious sources. The muse of history was once portrayed with a scroll and pen. The modern Clio should be armed with a spade. The historian to day has to dig for his parts. The study of unconscious sources begins with buildings, vases, irons, etc., but it soon advances to the inscriptions on tombs, coins, obelisks. The purpose of these inscriptions was not historic, but such is their use today. The rhetorical panegyric conveys history, although its object is to magnify some popular...
Next, a gentleman with a mild and inquiring cast of countenance, and an evident thirst for information attracted our attention. He was examining part of the apparatus and we were told was a junior of that kind commonly known in college parlance as a "dig," by which is meant one who never cuts chapel, lectures, or recitations, who has never received a summons, and to whom there is no unholy pleasure in "painting the town red," or "paralyzing the faculty." We were told to regard him carefully for the species is nearly extinct, and will soon...
...walk on Harvard Street, just opposite Holyoke St. On every moist day, on each side of the walk leading from the Chapel to Memorial, two large pools of water are formed which gradually rise and overflow the path; then our generous authorities send a couple of stalwart Irishmen who dig a small trench across the path, drawing the small puddle into the larger, and making the walk in the meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common...