Word: plain
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...Necropolis of Ancon, said Mr. Dorsey, stands in the midst of a vast rolling plain. The city itself covers about 200 acres. The first mention we find of the existence of such a place is in a book written in 1753 by an explorer and traveller in South America, in which we see that in the centre of Peru there was a town of about 500 inhabitants called Ancon. In 1748 the name Lancon was printed on a map of Peru made in France. This was probably a corruption of La Ancon. Ever since this time there have been frequent...
There has been a great deal of discussion, he said, as to whether the Troy of Homer was a real city, and if so, where its site was to be found. In 1873 Professor Schlieman began excavations on a hill overlooking the Plain of Troy in the northwest of Troad. In the centre of the hill he found the ruins of six cities, built one upon the other. The oldest of these cities was probably built about 2000 B. C. Later work among the ruins has shown the existence of three other settlements. The last of these was the Roman...
When thought is given to the class baseball series of this year, it becomes plain that something must be done, else the series in future years will amount to nothing. To be sure, circumstances were this year exceptionally unfavorable. The bad weather and the fear that the games would have to be played on a very poor diamond delayed the work of the teams, and the lack of grandstands on Jarvis cut down the attendance at the games played there. Inevitably, interest in the series as a whole has suffered...
After the main features of the Memorial Hall situation have been seen, the question comes: What is to be done? We believe that, when two opposing bodies meet both of which have the force of indisputable truths with them, both must be moved from their purposed courses. It is plain that, unless the University is to be removed from men who have not large means, the Corporation must do something; it is equally plain that unless the Corporation can have assurance that a second dining-hall will settle matters for a considerable term of years, this second dining-hall will...
...members of the Corporation further state that the business already carried on by them is tremendous, and that to furnish board to students is a complicated matter under the most favorable circumstances. Since therefore it is not plain on what basis the new hall could be organized, and since the question seems in reality to be not of a second hall but of a number of halls limited only by the growth of the University, the Corporation is inclined to stop where it is and let the problem be solved by recourse to private enterprise...