Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive ornaments...
These famous reliefs were taken by a certain Elgin in a spirit of archaelogical camaraderie to the British Museum where they have remained ever since. Nobody can see them, of course, because it is too dark and dusty inside, but they are in a good safe place and everybody knows where to find them. The Greeks feel that properly to restore the Parthenon they should have the marbles, which is quite illogical from an English point of view and for that matter quite impractical from any point of view...
...this familiar outline, Miss Lowell has brought new opinions, new material. She has studied old stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep...
...Hutchinson High F. B. Smith '24, quarterback 22 5.06 151 Dean Academy T. Smith '23, back 22 5.11 171 Scott High G. T. Stevens '25, quarterback 19 5.09 146 Powder Point R. C. Sweetser '25, guard 19 5.09 177 Portsmouth High M. V. Swenson '23, guard 24 6.01 204 Elgin Academy J. T. Taylor '23, guard 22 6.00 197 Johnstown High L. A. Thompson '24, center 20 6.04 194 Senn High M. H. Watkins '24, end 20 6.00 173 Shaw High S. P. Wright '25, back 19 5.11 167 Terril High E. H. Whitaker '24, tackle...