Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Rehearsals for the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus, the Greek play, to be produced by the Classical Department in the Stadium, June 16 and 19, have been held regularly since October. This tragedy is the first of the Oresteia, the three plays on the fortunes of the house of Atreus. Representing the highest achievement of Aeschylus and probably of all Greek drama, they form the only extant specimen of a trilogy...
...messenger bids them prepare a loyal welcome for Agamemnon. Clytaemnestra then appears and tells of her joy at the knowledge of her husband's victorious home-coming. After the departure of the messenger, who before leaving, recounts the storms that scattered the Greek fleet, the chorus sings the second stasimon...
...much of Professor Coolidge's report as the Chairman of the Athletic Committee as bears on the question of professional coaches; an interesting account of Henry Dunster, Harvard's first president; topics from the President's Report; accounts of the new collection of classical antiquities and the coming Greek play; a report of the celebration of the New York Harvard Club; and the usual departments...
...Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects," and "Some Aspects of Greek Genius," by Ss. H. Butcher...
...before April 1. The Bowdoin prizes are as follows: a first prize of $250 and two second prizes of $100 each, offered to undergraduates, and three prizes of $200, offered to graduates, for dissertations in English; two prizes of $50 each, offered to undergraduates for translations into Latin and Greek; and a prize of $100, offered to graduates, for an original essay in Latin or Greek...