Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supposition, for the records on the style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown to the audience by means of the stereopticon...
...Flat" received its initial interpretation at the Tremont theatre last night. The play is built upon the financial difficulties of a young couple who married on nothing, purchased furniture on the installment plan and went to live in a flat, while the husband writes tragedies which are never accepted. The devices to escape creditors and the dismantlement of the flat, followed by the improvising of chairs and sofas out of soap boxes and barrels, form the basis of action. The perilous adventures of persons who sit in these makeshifts and the disasters that ensue, give rise to a number...
Cornell in her management of football has inaugurated a plan entirely different from that pursued in the other branches of athletics. Whereas base ball, rowing, and track athletics are directly controlled by managers, elected by directors appointed by each class, football is governed entirely by a small society called the Cornell Foot Ball Association...
...Thomas Bruce was appointed British minister to Constantinople. The architect whom be had with him, urged him to have casts and drawings made of the remaining sculptures of the Parthenon. Failing to interest Pitt, the prime minister at this time, in his plan, Lord Elgin turned to English artists, but the demands of these were so far beyond his means that he abandoned his project for the time. On his way to Constantinople he stopped at Palermo where he succeeded in obtaining the services of an Italian artist with five assistants. With these he proceeded to Athens...
...follows: That Yale shall withdraw from the foot ball league, at the same time make a proposition to Princeton that she shall withdraw, with the added stipulation that if Princeton does not comply Yale will see no further obstacle to the formation of a dual league with Harvard. The plan as it is here proposed is at least a fair one, and leaves an honorable opportunity for the three colleges concerned to come to a satisfactory understanding. There are two possible objections, however, to Harvard's acceptance of this scheme. The first of these is that as stated it offered...