Word: troys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEDNESDAY.Latin Readings. The Fall of Troy. Virgil's Aeneid, Book II. Mr. Charles Parker. Sever...
...whole sophomore class and most of the Freshmen class at the Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York have been suspended on account of a disgraceful "flag rush...
...earliest authentic mention of the game of ball is by Homer, according to whom hand-ball was used coevally with the destruction of Troy. From the game of hand-ball came tennis, which in the sixteenth century became very popular. In the fourteenth century was introduced a large air-ball, to be beaten around with the first. This soon developed into the foot-ball. From tennis originated cricket, which in America has taken the from of base-ball.-Post...
Prof. R. C. Jebb records in a recent number of the Fortnightly Review his impressions of the Troad during a tour made in company with Prof. W. W. Goodwin of Harvard, drawing the conclusion that no one site in this valley satisfies all the conditions of Homeric Troy...
...special feature of the new observatory at Columbia College will be a paper dome. This will be the fourth paper dome in the world. They have all been made by Waters & Sons, of Troy, N. Y., the manufacturers of paper boats...