Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accommodations here. There is every reason why Harvard should work especially hard to win the cup this year. The old cup was won eight out of fourteen times by Harvard and as the new cup is to be competed for the first time this year, Harvard should make a great effort to keep up her reputation...
...spread widely over Greece. The god's most important sanctuary was the Epidauros, and his greatest shrines throughout Greece were the offshoots of the Epidaurian. Games in honor of Asklepios, consisting of gymnastics, music and the representation of plays were established at Epidauros in very early times. A great many fanciful theories have been propounded as to a connection between these games and the art of healing...
...promising place for excavating, and work was begun in 1881 by the Greek Archaeological society. The excavations were continued until 1885, and have proved to be among the most successful ever carried on in Greece. Two temples have been discovered, and one circular structure, of unknown purpose, but great architectural merit. The debris has been cleared away from the theatre, and the stage structure thus revealed has led to a revolution in our ideas as to the manner of the production of a Greek play. Many sculptures have been found of over average merit, though none of the highest...
...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
Probably few students appreciate the true value of the collection of books in Gore Hall. It is without doubt the first college library in the country, and is better than many of the public libraries. It does not contain a great many duplicate copies of the commoner books, but it makes up for this in the rarity of others. The most valuable collection of rare books ever given to library is that of Charles Sumner, who left all his books, in themselves a library, to the college. Many of his books are of interest on account of their former owners...