Word: siting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS.- We trust that you may kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages...
...piles are being driven for the foundation of the new boat house, a gift of Mr. A. W. Weld of Boston to the University. The site chosen is just below the Boylston street bridge and all the river front from the bridge to the coal wharf has been purchased so that there will be no interference. The building will be a substantial two story one so planned that additions can be made when needed. The first floor is to be entirely used for storing the boats and will accomodate about fifty. On the second floor will be a large hall...
Work on the new gymnasium will probably be begun in a month or two as but $20,000 of the $150,000 remains yet to be pledged. The site is on the corner of Elm and High streets opposite the campus. The gymnasium will contain, besides the usual apparatus, two rowing tanks and a swimming bath...
Fifty thousand dollars of the one hundred and fifty thousand needed to purchase the site of ancient Delphi has been raised...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Professor J. W. White's lecture on the Greek stage. Professor White said that of all the monuments of ancient Athens which have survived the ravages of time none is more interesting than the theatre of Dionysus. For many years the site of this theatre was not known. The greatest share of the credit of its discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan employed in all Greek theatres; the seats rose in semi...