Word: summit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lecture on "The Conquest of the Matterhorn" under the auspices of the Mining Club, in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be open to the public, will be illustrated with lantern slides made from drawings by Mr. Edward Whymper, who reached the summit of the Matterhorn after several unsuccessful attempts...
...main excavation was carried on at the summit of the hill of Samaria, where walls of buildings of many ages were unearthed. The remains discovered were mostly Roman, in particular a large Roman altar and the torso of a figure of heroic size. At one point was found a very massive wall which seems to be certainly Hebrew, but owing to the great depth of the debris and the late date of the discovery it was not possible to dig out any considerable portion of this wall the present year. At several points on the summit the clearings reached...
...main work was done on the summit of the mound. Here a great Roman stair 80 feet in width was discovered in June. At the top of the stairway is a large paved area flanked by massive walls, on which were found the inverted bases of four columns. Beyond the paved platform, there are probably the remains of a temple. To the west of the stairway a chamber 20 by 40 feet in size was found partly cut in the rock. A large pit in the floor was not explored because of lack of time. At the foot...
...main work was done on the summit of the mound. The walls discovered show that massive and important buildings of various periods stood here. A broad stairway is Roman, at the foot of which were found an altar, two small culumns bearing Latin inscriptions, and the figure of a Roman emperor in marble. At one side of the stairway there is a large vaulted chamber cut partly in the rock. Remains of Greek and Roman pottery were found in great quantities...
...from today that the student of today can scarcely imagine it. Then there were no dormitories outside the Yard; the Yard was the centre of all College life. One of the chief temporal ambitions of every student was to room on the Yard; a room in Holworthy being the summit of his hopes. There was very little except the bare necessities in these Yard rooms, but few were carpeted, and almost none contained any such decorations as pictures or casts...