Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief deity but there are some proofs that Bacchus was worshiped there before Apollo. People of all nations worshiped at the shrine and so many presents were given that in the time of Pliny, after Delphi had been plundered many times, there remained three thousand. The excavations so far have revealed a wall 13 feet high and 500 feet long which formed the upper terrace upon which the temple was built. The positions of the theatre, race course, council hall and several small temples have been located. But above all they have found that the floor of the temple remains...
...communication the thesis nuisance comes up for a little more much needed criticism; criticism which is useless, however, so far as any effect upon the authorities is concerned...
...Williams eleven is by far the strongest team Harvard has met this year and the game yesterday was a good test of the strength of our eleven. The score compares favorably with that made by Yale against the same team. Williams discovered the weak points and by attacking those repeatedly gained much ground. The rush line work was very poor and Williams had little difficulty to make holes in it. The tackling of several of the team was high and the passing was slow and uncertain. Harvard's superiority lay chiefly in the excellent work of the packs and ends...
...doubles only two matches were played, Orcutt and Potter defeating Brown and Sturgis, 6-4, 6-8, 10-8, and Lee and Tallant defeating Howard and Beake, 6-1, 6-1. The match between Orcutt and Potter and Brown and Sturgis was the best played so far. Orcutt and Potter took the first set; then Brown and Sturgis won the second set. In the third, Brown and Sturgis had 5-1, 5-3. 40-love, and 8-7 at different times; but Orcutt and Potter, by playing well up to the net and placing ing the balls to the left...
...contributed little or nothing to the furtherance of archaeological research in Greece, and has in fact in this respect no enviable record. Now, however, preparations are making for the excavation of Delphi and its surroundings under the direction of American scholars and these excavations, if successful, will go far toward proving America's claim to scholarly recognition. No more fruitful field certainly could have been chosen for the initial work than the site of ancient Delphi so replete with the historic associations of all Greece, and the results there attained cannot fail to be a great addition to classical learning...