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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supervision of Mr. Buck of Yale. It will be remembered that last year a theatre, with its orchestra and stage, was excavated at Sicyon. The work at present is going on near the ruins of a Byzantine church. In the apseof the church a choragic monument was found, upon whose architraive were the names of those patrons of the chorus who erected it in commemoration of a triumph in a literary competition. Outside the church a marble seat or throne was unearthed, while near it there were traces of votin slabs and statues to the number of fifteen. The most...
...possibly some excuse for them, though it would seem that six months at college ought to be enough to teach most men to suppress the school-boy exuberance of spirits known as "freshness." If the offenders are upper-classmen, we can only feel sorry that men have to exist whose intellects are feeble enough to find enjoyment in such juvenile tricks...
...cent.; 2, 2 per cent. Physicians, 9, 4 1-3 per cent.; 5, 6 per cent. Other occupa ions, 8, 4 per cent.; 5, 5 per cent. From this schedule it will be seen that there are twice as many Academic freshmen as Sheffield freshmen whose fathers are professional men; while the Scientific department is up-held noticeably by physicians, and in large proportion by manufacturers and business...
...accommodate the crowd of applicants. As a result, the demand for desirable rooms near the yard is so great that no price is considered too exorbitant by the owners of private buildings. Landladies are enabled to retire with a handsome income after a few years in this business. Men whose purses are limited, and who are unsuccessful in drawing a college room, are obliged to retire some distance from the yard, in order to find suitable accommodation within their means. Just as, before the establishment of the Co-operative Society, Cambridge trades people used to be with each other...
...Broad St., a truck containing 800,000 dollars got stuck in the snow. It was immediately surrounded by an expectant crowd, whose anticipations were rudely shaken where a strong guard was placed over the treasure...