Word: hills
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subordinate to national. (x) Elections will be on national issues. (y) Offices will be filled with reference to national politics: Examples, Governor Powers, notorious for his acquirement of State lands for a nominal sum, owes his election to national issues; In 1888 in N. Y. Republicans voted for Governor Hill [Democratic] in return for Democratic votes for Harrison. (B) Biennial elections will make executive less effective. (1) Re-election of governor less probable: Example, almost all the governors in the annual states in recent years have served three terms; but few in biennial states. Tribune Almanac, 1884-1896. (2) Executives...
...following new men have been taken on the Glee Club: J. M. Richardson '99, Lathrop '00, R. Chipman '99, W. C. Hill '97, E. L Greene P. G., D. C. Scott...
...Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art Museum, last night, on the "Excavations at Troy." He referred to the fact that different answers had been given to these questions both in antiquity and in the present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed that they lived on the site of ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they...
Schliemann sided with the inhabitants of ancient Ilion, and in 1870 undertook excavations, which he continued until 1890, on the hill now called Hissarlik. After Schliemann's death these excavations were continued by Professor Dorpfeld until 1894, first at the expense of Mrs. Schliemann and then at the expense of the German emperor...
Professor Dorpfeld, by means of a vertical section of the hill, which showed the different strata one above the other, made it very clear how Schliemann came to overlook the upper citadel...