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...work of excavation has been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that...
...beginning immediately after the final examinations this month. Favorable terms and in many places liberal guarantees have been secured to induce the team to visit the places on and about Puget Sound. Games will be scheduled with teams at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Fairhaven, Whatcom, Port Townsend, Snohomish, Everet and Olympia. It is expected that immediately upon the completion of this tour the team will return to San Francisco and take steamer for the Hawaiian Islands, where they are to play a series of games, finishing with a game in Honolulu on the Fourth of July...
Born in 1853, Dorpfeld received an education as an architect. He was destined, however, to study old buildings, not to construct new. At the age of twenty-four he was sent to Olympia, and since that time he has been constantly engaged in archaeological investigation of every kind. He has conducted numerous excavations and has made careful and valuable examinations...
...call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages and narrow streets of Kastin-the little modern village on the temple site...
...lecture on "Recent Architectural and Archaeological Discoveries at Olympia" was delivered in Columbia College by Dr. Alfred Emerson, Fellow of the John Hopkins University. The lecturer described the characteristics of the Olympic games. He said : "Euphidos, after winning in one of the three-mile races, was so elated by his victory that he leaped out of the stadium and ran home to tell the news at Argos. It was sixty-three miles away, and he arrived there the same evening. The best jump of antiquity was one of fifty-three feet, and there can be no mistake in the figures...