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Oberlin is endeavoring to have her field day take the form of the Grecian Olympian...
...Wednesday, the 22d or 23d. The following is the list of events: 100 yards dash, 220 yards dash, 440 yards run, half mile run, mile run, mile walk, 220 yards hurdle race, running broad jump, and running high jump. Prizes, gold and silver medals after the stamp of old Grecian coins will be awarded respectively to first and second in each event...
...scheme appeals in every way to Harvard men. There is little doubt that if carried out it will enrich art by discoveries of statues, carvings, and inscriptions. It will greatly increase our knowledge of Grecian architecture and antiquities by giving us access to Delphi, perhaps the most promising site in Greece for this purpose. The excavations will be carried on under charge of the American school at Athens with which Harvard, more than any other college, is identified through Professor Goodwin, Professor Allen, Professor White, Professor Norton, and other founders and benefactors. Several other colleges have already contributed toward...
...contractors have begun to tear down the old Whig Hall, at Princeton, and a new one, costing $40,000, of the Grecian style, will be erected on the old site. Whig Hall was founded in 1769, by James Madison...
...word of commendation is due those who had in charge the presentation of the play. The costumes showed taste in the grouping of colors, and were, moreover, in keeping with Grecian models. This, in fact, lent no small share to the success of the performance and helped to recall the Oedipus presented in 1882 by members of the university...