Word: minor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself...
Several other minor changes have been made in this department...
...Yale men, on the other hand, did not seem to have divided up their ground definitely. They also failed to remove benefiting but minor considerations. For this reason it was difficult to grasp their main argument...
...take an examination in the courses in that series, and a diploma will be given on passing the examination. The diploma is of two kinds-the major, which certifies that the holder not only knows and speaks French, but is capable of teaching it to foreigners; the minor, which is given to candidates who show proof that they know and can speak French...
...third and last Cambridge performance of "The Alcayde" was given in Brattle Hall last evening. Freedom from noticeable hitches and a general improvement in the acting of both principals and minors in the cast made the performance a decided success. E. M. Waterhouse '97, again filled the role of Farina with marked ability in both singing and acting. In the topical song by J. A. Loud '98, N. H. White was encored again and again. With his funny acting as the Gentle Prince of Fez, Arnold Scott '97, kept the audience continually laughing. In the minor role of Mocha, versatile...