Word: background
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Gardner will arrive in this country the first week in April, and will deliver a series of lectures, illustrated by lantern slides, on the following subjects: "Archxology in Relation to History;" "The Athenian Acropolis as a Background to History;" "Greek and Roman Portraints;" "The Sarcophagi of Sidon;" "Greek Coins in Relation to History...
...will be open for playing about December 1st. This court is the best in the country, the conditions governing out-door play being reproduced as far as possible. The floor is covered with tightly-stretched canvas painted green, and the end walls are hung with black, making a good background. At night the court is lighted by several are lights. There are also baths and dressing rooms for the players. It is hoped that more Harvard players will join this year. Names may be sent to the president or secretary of the Harvard Lawn Tennis Club...
Graduate Manager N. W. Bingham has received the trophy won at the Boston College games. It has the monogram of Boston College in gold inside a wreath of myrtle on an antique oak background. Below this is a plate giving the place of competition, the names of the competitors and the times made. It will be placed in the Trophy Room tomorrow...
...story is one of Underground Russia, and deals especially with the secret and terrible power of the Nihilists. It has a strong historical background and an absorbing plot. Jokai never forgets that, after all, the story is the thing, and here is one whose moving complications may well stir the feeblest pulse. It is a book to read and to be read again, a story instinct with the pure romance of the Thousand-and-One Nights...
...simple country houses of Pliny and the somewhat more elaborate villas of Cicero would form a not unfitting background to the life of today. In the Italian villa we find brought into subjection the main ideas and features of its Roman predecessor. On the borders of Lake Como we find the best examples of these houses. Here the blue waters of the lake contrast strongly with the pure white country houses with which the lake is bordered. Art and nature seem to have combined to make a paradise. During the Renaissance the art of building was continually changing, largely owing...