Word: tombs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...views comprised about sixty places of interest, and were thrown on the white wall by the calcium light. Starting in Italy, the first picture was the Bay of Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
...Sidon, eleven sarcophagi were discovered; four Phoenician and seven Greek. The Greek ones have been removed to Constantinople and will be exhibited as soon as a fitting room can be prepared. One of these is of such immense proportions and so magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high...
...Dead-head family that has been represented in every generation (with the exception of one) at Yale, is about to build, at a cost of half a million, a new tomb decorated with magnificent scroll-work.-Exchange...
...success in life and the noblest benefactor of the human race is he who gives the brightest visions. The human reason left to itself can make but little headway while combined with the imagination, it leads to the greatest result. What takes away the pain of the ghastly, gaping tomb, of the faces of distressed friends, of the dissolution of man's physical nature? The vision that shows death to be but the birth of a new life. Foremost among the bright vision-givers is Jesus Christ, who has given us the sight of a life beyond, a vision which...
...only by an effort, usually, that a student can manage to spend an hour within its walls, and while the libraries of other colleges remain invitingly open during the evening hours of leisure, the library of Harvard University is closed, and as dark and silent as a tomb. Unsparing and vigorous should be the opposition of the students to this shameful and crying abuse, for it is only by a concerted action of the entire college that we can win our library from its present inability to meet the requirements of a college which boasts the name of Harvard...