Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short study shows us that these monuments are divided into two classes. The first class represents people after death, and is typified by archaic reliefs. In the second class, men are represented in life. Tombstones of this kind may still be found at Athens, preserved through the ruin and devastation of centuries...
...practiced in secret.- (b) It tends to lower rates.- (1) Rates were lower in 1884 under pooling system than ever before, except during rate wars: N. Y. Ry. Commission Report of 1884, I: 77.- (c) It checks consolidation and monopoly.- (1) The powerful companies cannot, by cutting rates, ruin, and then absorb, the smaller roads: Pol. Sci. Quar. '87, p. 388.- (d) It tends to lessen the construction of parallel lines.- (1) New roads, obtaining only a fair share of traffic under pooling system, cannot compete with old established lines.- (2) Parallel lines are usually constructed on wild-cat schemes...
...think that the series are too valuable to be allowed to go to ruin in this way. They do good to the men on the teams, they give needed practice to the freshmen, and they develop 'varsity material. It must never be forgotten that under the new rules, the 'varsity will practically have to be made each year from new men in the University and from the players on the class nines. Are not the games important enough to be taken seriously...
...feeble enough as he is; let him have every chance to pass the last years of his life as happily as possible. The college will miss him when the time comes for him to go and it seems an inhuman act to force him to his ruin...
Beginning on the left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while...