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Classical Club. A tour through the Peloponnesus. Illustrated lecture by Professor Rufus B. Richardson, of Dartmouth College. Harvard...
...CLASSICAL CLUB.Professor Rufus B. Richardson, of Dartmouth College, recently Director of the American School at Athens, will lecture before the Classical Club on "A Tour Through the Peloponnesus," on Thursday evening, April 28. The lecture will be illustrated by the stereopticon, and will be open to the public...
...contained gold plate and coins which weighed 100 pounds and whose value was $25,000. Dr. Schlieman opened in all 6 tombs and found many valuable relics of gold, silver and bronze. These tombs are all thought to belong to the mythical age before the Dorian invasion of the Peloponnesus. Tiryns like Mycenae was at its height during the heroic age and was the home of many great demagogues. After the Dorian invasion Tiryns and Mycenal were both subjects of Argos. Dr. Schlieman found ruins of large palaces, at Tiryns and Mycenae, which so resemble the ruins of the palace...
...spring the members of the school made tours in different parts of Greece. In March a large party went into Peloponnesus under the guidance of the director and Mr. Dorpfield. The hospitalities of the school were extended to Dr. T. D. Goodell, of Hartford, Mr. M. C. Gile, of Phillips Academy at Andover, and Mr. H. T. Hildredth, who returned to Athens to continue his investigation of the demes of Northern Attica. The use of the library was freely granted to the members of the British School, whose library did not reach Athens until the end of the year. Access...
...sort here. The University - small, classic, and containing more interests than it can peaceably hold - may well be compared to Greece itself. The societies, of which we all are so proud, are not unlike the elegant states which grew up in the genial climate of Attica and of the Peloponnesus, - the modern prototype of which may be found in the shadow of the elms of the College Yard. And, to carry the simile a little further, at the risk of offending some very good friends of mind, the grim body of non-society men are not unlike the semi-barbaric...