Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Outside the Altis lay the Stadium and Hippodrome, where the Olympic games were celebrated; the Bouleuterium, the ground plan of which had the form of a ship and is still a riddle to the architects; and the palaestra and gymnasium where the athletes exercised. Countless works of art were discovered in Olympia, and beautiful pictures of many of these were thrown on the screen, the pedimental sculptures of the temple of Zeus, the beautiful statue of Victory by Paeonius, and that masterpiece of Greek sculpture, the Hermes of Praxiteles. Besides these the museum which the Greek government has erected...
Beneath the ruins of this stately citadel five prehistoric settlements have been discovered, which were made two thousand years before Christ and in still more ancient times. Even on the photographs, as shown by the slides, these early settlements have an extremely ancient and primitive look. Of these five a srata Professor Dorpfeld described one, the second from the bottom, at length, regrading this to be of special importance. This also was a citadel with great walls and towers; Schliemann believed it to be the citadel of Priam. I this stratum he found the celebrated articles of gold which...
...upper room in the Fogg Art Museum have all, with the exception of those of Michael Angelo, been taken down and others substituted in their places. Those which have been on exhibition are now placed in the cabinets with the remainder of the collection, where they may still be seen by those desiring to make a study of such subjects. The collection now numbers about fifteen thousand, and it is intended, for the sake of variety, to change those on exhibition each year...
...trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality last night about ten men presented themselves. The playing was up to the usual standard, but there is still a lack of wood and brass wind instruments, wood especially. Any man in the University who can play a clarinet or bassoon is urged to come out and try. There will be another trial of candidates tonight in Roberts Hall, Brattle square, at 7 o'clock...
...Freshman candidates are still divided into six squads of about twelve men each, all of whom seem to be raw material, in need of a great deal of coachins. More heavy men is at present their chief need, but this may be remedied later by men coming back from the 'Varsity...