Word: laying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Outside the Altis lay the Stadium and Hippodrome, where the Olympic games were celebrated; the Bouleuterium, the ground plan of which had the form of a ship and is still a riddle to the architects; and the palaestra and gymnasium where the athletes exercised. Countless works of art were discovered in Olympia, and beautiful pictures of many of these were thrown on the screen, the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus, the beautiful statue of Victory by Paeonius, and that masterpiece of Greek sculpture, the Hermes of Praxiteles. Besides these the museum which the Greek government has erected...
...With these questions 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...
...eleven was almost the same as that in the Trinity game, with the exception that Donald and Haughton were placed at tackles, and Bouve took Norton Shaw's place at left guard. During the preliminary practice, Cochrane injured his right knee, while tackling the dummy. This injury will probably lay him up for a week...
...made by Rev. P. S. Moxom and Rev. George Hodges, members of the present board, welcoming the new members of the University and emphasizing their spiritual duties. Rev. Mr. Crothers took as his text, Isaiah. 32-2, and his sermon was an appeal to the large audience present to lay emphasis upon individualism and the personal responsibility of every man to do his utmost to aid humanity...
During the past College year we have done all that lay in our power to stir up a right spirit of enthusiasm among the students, and when such a spirit did begin to make its appearance we strove to encourage it in these columns. This has been our attitude from the first, and it is our attitude today. We should be unwilling to do anything to lessen the true, right sort of enthusiasm, which inspires in every student's heart a warmer affection for Harvard. But students must be careful at the start, when the new spirit of enthusiasm...