Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coaching has been for the most part on blade work, and, with the exception of two, who is a little slow, the port side is much better than the starboard. The starboard side is very ragged, and none of the oars go in together; three's oar particularly is high and late. The now four are inclined to be weak and short on the leg work...
...second annual dinner of the Harvard Union, which was held at Young's Hotel, Boston, last night, was very successful. Enthusiastic speeches were made on the work of the past successful year and on the plans for the future. The speaking was of a high order and was perhaps as good an example of the standard of work done by the Union as could be given...
...Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus...
...Schliemann began his excavations by digging a trench from the north through the hill. He found that Troy was surrounded by high walls of stone, surmounted by sun-dried bricks. The bricks were slabs, one foot and a half by four inches, held in place by uprights and cross-beams of wood. Every fourth course of bricks was replaced by a cross beam...
Pedagogical Seminary. History in the High School: Second Paper. Mr. Ray Greene Huling. Sever...