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After the great eruption of the year 79 A. D., Pompeii lay buried for fifteen centuries. For two centuries more little was done in the work of excavation, but after 1772 there followed thirteen decades of profitable work. The most fruitful of these is that which has just been completed, for in it many valuable discoveries have been made. The most important of these are the Villa of Bosca Reali, the temple of Venus Pompeiana, the House of the Vetii, the House of the Silver Wedding and the Bronze Phoebus...
This class; the bourgeoise that arose in the Revolution, has exhausted the role it had to play in forgetting that its ideal was democratic and its aim to work. It has affranchised its sons from the law of work, and as its strength lay in this law, it has become enfeebled quicker than a nobility which has other principles and associations. The ousting of this class by a new laborious bourgeoise is rapidly occurring by elimination and without tragical convulsions...
Vesper Service will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The programme is as follows; Crossing the Bar, Woodward; I will lay me down in Peace, Brown; solo and chorus from Gounod's Gallia...
...University of Pennsylvania extensive plans have been made for the improvement of Franklin Field. It is proposed to build a gymnasium and permanent grand-stands, and to lay out athletic fields and a running track. To secure these improvements a 40 year lease of Franklin Field will be necessary; and that together with the improvements will cost about $520,000. $100,000 has already been raised; and the athletic committee has authorized the issue of five per cent. bonds to the extent...
...Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard team lay in effective refutation. The Harvard debaters were too much confined to notes, but their delivery was superior to that of the Brown team. The decision of the judges was two to one in favor of Harvard...