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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer said that this little temple is one of the most beautiful specimens of Greek architecture which has been preserved. It is situated on the south of the Propylaea, and is built on the Pyrgos, a superstructure of the soft rock which the Athenians used in the foundations of their buildings; this Pyrgos rises about thirty feet above the bed-rock of the Acropolis. The time of the erection of the temple is somewhat doubtful, although Bohn advances technical proof tending to show that it belongs to the same period as the Propylaea. Pertelic marble was used in the construction...
...Taylor jr., '90, has returned from the South having entirely recovered from his severe illness. He will soon be able to return to college...
...growing. Then, too, the contact of the Negro with the white races has furnished reconstructive forces which have done much in developing the Negro character. An important influence of the education of the Negro is found in the spur which it has applied to the white people of the South. He is susceptible of as much education, development and improvement as the white, and the educated Negro is pushing the white race and slowly abolishing the race line. The Negro has always gone forward, even in the time of his bondage. The race has the instinct of thrift, and oppression...
...knowledge that the Greeks were very fond of symmetry in their architecture forces us to the conclusion that the Propylaea was not finished as originally planned, for there is a noticeable lack of symmetry between the north and south wings of the structure. Other reasons also support this conclusion. So after a description of the general features of the Propylaea as it was constructed, Dr. Wheeler discussed the original plans and the ingenious and truthful restorations of the German archaeologists...
Harvard will play the Boston base ball club on the South End grounds, April...