Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday afternoon the University team held its first practice on Soldiers Field since last Thursday. No fielding was done on the diamond, but the whole afternoon was given up to batting, in which the team was weak at Philadelphia last Saturday, and fatally so at Andover on Monday...
...Charles Wellington Furlong, the artist and writer, will lecture on "The Greek Sponge-Divers of Tripoli and the Finding of the Frigate 'Philadelphia'" at 8 o'clock this evening in the Living Room of the Union. The talk will be illustrated by more than 80 slides, almost all from original photographs, which aim not only to present characteristic and unique scenes, but to display the elements of good composition from the artist's point of view...
...introduction Mr. Furlong will review the conditions in the Mediterranean which led to our wars against the Barbary pirates, during which the Frigate "Philadelphia" was seized by the Tripolitans and recaptured and burnt by Lieutenant Decatur in Tripoli harbor...
This he will follow with an account of the adventurous and little known vocation of the Greek sponge-divers off the Tripoli coast, who aided in the search for the "Philadelphia", and finally he will tell about his discovery of the wreck...
...Charles Wellington Furlong, the artist and writer, will lecture on "The Greek Sponge Divers of Tripoli and the Finding of the Frigate 'Philadelphia'" tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...