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Morris Earle.Medora, a Grecian maiden made into an angel by her Uncle Yussuf, who fondly styles her "Me-dora...
...Grecian and Roman systems and ideas of physical development, said Dr. Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change...
...lectures will be delivered by Prof. Norton on the Assos expedition, with accompanying stereopticon views. Too few of us know anything about this first of American archaeological expeditions, which has been so successful within the last year, and has brought to light so much of interest to lovers of Grecian antiquities, upon which subject Prof. Norton is of course sure to entertain and instruct an audience...
Further on I find a lament that so "few at the present day are the votaries of Grecian literature! Time was when "A man was frequently recommended by his skill in the aorists, or his profundity in the particles. But, now, we are stigmatized as unintelligible and pedantic, if we dare to introduce in conversation a Greek quotation, however rich in Attick aspiration, or Ionian melody...
...perhaps the least known of any in its internal working, nor is it generally known that it possesses the most beautiful and costly of college buildings. The chief college building is the most magnificent and durable structure in the United States. It is built after the model of a Grecian temple. It resembles the Parthenon, with a peristyle of thirty-six columns, whose cost was about $13,000 each. The cella or body of the building is 111 feet wide and 169 feet long. This one structure cost two millions of dollars. The entire sum given by the donor...