Word: wheeler
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William H. Wheeler has published a very interesting and full account of the recent meeting of the Harvard Republican Club at Tremont Temple. The report contains a list of the officers of the club and the speeches of the gentlemen who addressed the meeting. After the address of the president, W. C. Boyden, follow the speeches of Rev. E. E. Hale, Judge E. Rockwood Hoar, Hon. George D. Robinson, Col. N. P. Hallowell, Hon. George F. Hoar, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. John D. Long and E. J. Rich. In addition, letters sent by John G. Whittier and Hon. Theodore...
Another large audience gathered in the lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Dr. Wheeler's second lecture on the Acropolis. The first lecture had been introductory; the second began the study of the Acropolis, the Propylaea being the first topic considered in detail...
...that in this and the following lectures he should take Pausanias as his guide. Pausanias is very unsatisfactory, but in his Piriegesis he has left us almost the only ancient description of the Acropolis we have, and it is merely fragmentary. From the first book of this work Dr. Wheeler translated the description of the Propylaea and used it as the basis of his lecture, filling in the imperfect outline given by Pausanias with the details discovered by modern research. With the assistance of stereopticon views of the ground plan of both the Acropolis and the Propylaea together with views...
...conclusion that the Propylaea was not finished as originally planned, for there is a noticeable lack of symmetry between the north and south wings of the structure. Other reasons also support this conclusion. So after a description of the general features of the Propylaea as it was constructed, Dr. Wheeler discussed the original plans and the ingenious and truthful restorations of the German archaeologists...
...glance at the University Calendar shows a number of unusually interesting lectures to be given during the coming week. Dr. Wheeler will give two lectures of his course on the "Athenian Acropolis," and Dr. Ward will begin his series on "Anthropology." In addition to these, General Armstrong, of the Hampton Institute, will deliver two lectures on the "Religious Education of the Negro and Indian," and Professor W. T. Harris, of Concord will speak on "German Thought and its significance to English-speaking People...