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...Greek cities of ancient and modern Italy, Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, and Pompeii will be among the principal places of interest included in the Italian Tour, under the auspices of the Italy America Society. A three-day sojourn through the Italian Lakes and over the battle-fields in the Dolomites will be followed by stops at Florence, Pisa, Padna, and Venice. A feature of this trip will be a visit at Oberammergau to witness the production of the renowned "Passion Play...
...only of great value to the investigator of some technical subject who can deal directly with material inaccessible to him here, but also opens up new vistas to the general student of ancient history, or literature, or art. He has all the concrete originals before him: Rome and Pompeii are near at hand; and the recent striking excavations at Cyrene in Tripoli are not faraway...
...Chandler '06; "The Ballad of Those That Mock," by J. Hinckley '06; "Harvard Types, 2, Our Friend Brattle Hall," by J. H. B.; "The Rest of the Circle," by Van Wyck Brooks '08; "A Freshman's Letters Home," by E. D. B.; "To a Man of Pompeii," by Van Wyck Brooks...
Professor Francis W. Kelsey, of the University of Michigan, lectured before the Classical Club in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "A Decade of Excavations at Pompeii." The lecture was illustrated by about thirty stereopticon slides...
After the great eruption of the year 79 A. D., Pompeii lay buried for fifteen centuries. For two centuries more little was done in the work of excavation, but after 1772 there followed thirteen decades of profitable work. The most fruitful of these is that which has just been completed, for in it many valuable discoveries have been made. The most important of these are the Villa of Bosca Reali, the temple of Venus Pompeiana, the House of the Vetii, the House of the Silver Wedding and the Bronze Phoebus...