Word: representation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Advocate's ringing eloquence and inspiring rhetoric is usually invoked in the cause of more board walks in the yard, or in protest at the manner of scattering the fertilizer over the grass, or in piteous appeals to be protected by the authorities from the muckers who assemble in...
DEAR SIRS.- As a member of the university, I wish to enter an earnest protest against the team which has marked the recent utterances of the Advocate on the subject of our athletics. The latest and worst example of the views to which I refer is to be found in...
C. C. Dana, '91, who has been elected captain of the Princeton nine for this year, is one of the best first basemen Princeton has ever had. In the spring of '86 he played first base for the first part of the season, and then center field, on the Exeter...
...fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which either a sick or a dead...
The monuments are not to be judged by the same standard as for instance, the Parthenon frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no...