Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stadium, June 16 and 19, have been held regularly since October. This tragedy is the first of the Oresteia, the three plays on the fortunes of the house of Atreus. Representing the highest achievement of Aeschylus and probably of all Greek drama, they form the only extant specimen of a trilogy...
...Hills '00, instructor in public speaking, has again prepared the acting version and will have general supervision of the production. This play by Thomas Heywood is the eighth in the series of Elizabethan revivals begun by the fraternity in 1898. The play is an amusing and little-known specimen of Heywood's domestic drama, and deals more with comedy and farce than with romance...
...volume was prepared with particular care after an Italian model of the fifteenth century, and is a very fine specimen of the bookbinders...
...Botanical Museum, in the University Museum building, a number of new Blaschka plat-models have been placed on exhibition for the first time. They are mounted on the new style of plaques and have been placed chiefly in the vestibule. A large number of economic specimens, recently received, are also on exhibition and are expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing...
...Louis H. Farlow, who for the last few winters has been collecting Indian trophies in the West, has lately presented to the Peabody Museum some valuable specimens, consisting for the most part of basket-ware obtained from the tribes in Alaska. British Columbia, and Southern California. The collection contains two specimen dancing skirts of an old tribe of Klamath Indians in Northwestern California. Both skirts are ornamented with black pinonnuts, and are woven with rawhide and grass. By far the most valuable of the specimens given by Mr. Farlow, is a very old Esquimo trinket-box about two feet long...