Word: mades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Previous to the removal of the marbles by Lord Elgin, he said, other spoliations of the temples and monuments were made. Private individuals visited Athens and carried off large statues and sculptures to adorn their own private galleries. On December 26, 1687, the Parthenon was blown up in the Venetian siege of the Acropolis and many antiquities of inestimable value were lost...
...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
...Williams college eleven has played twelve games this fall, nine exhibition and three championship. Of these Williams won one championship and tied one and won five exhibition games. She has made three hundred and four points to her opponents' two hundred and thirteen. A notice is posted in University stating that an examination will shortly be held by the civil service commission in Washington, or in any other large city where the board has an office, to select two clerks for the geological survey, at a salary of $900 each. Some knowledge of geology is required...
...such good opportunities to judge the situation on its true merits, the views expressed deserve careful consideration. The writer finds the solution of Yale's victories in the fact that "Yale has better men," and that where our rivals have not been physically superior, the discrepancy has been made up by excellent management. He thinks that the "talk about college loyalty in athletics is nonsense," that what we need is more love for athletic sports, not more loyalty. He thinks that Harvard will soon gain the upper hand by better management and better training...
...writer, "the new gate is the embodiment of the idea that Harvard is not in every way public property." The imitation in architecture is, however, no cause for pride and not worthy architecture. "How I happened to come to Harvard" tells how a man out west suddenly made up his mind to go to Harvard...