Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glee and Banjo clubs have recently given concerts in Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and everywhere have been well received. A concert will be given in New York this week and during the Easter recess the clubs will take quite an extensive western trip, going as far as St. Louis...
...Yale letter to a western exchange states that Stagg will without doubt pitch for Yale in all decisive games...
...Amherst Glee club intends to take a western trip during the Easter vacation...
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Wheeler finished his lecture, begun Monday, on "The Marbles of the Parthenon." The lecture was largely taken up with descriptions of the sculptured figures on the western pediment, as contrasted with those on the other pediments. The figures on the western pediment are varied both in character and in execution. Many of them have been injured and almost destroyed by the time and weather, but enough still remain to show us that the marbles were figured in the most delicate manner. In many places, however, the figures are almost intact, and there the beautiful outlines serve...
...procession at the Panathenaea, the greatest of the Athenian festivals. The basreliefs stand out boldly representing the whole progress of the procession, the chariots, the horses, and the armed youths, then the old men bearing olive branches and the young girls carrying baskets on their heads. From the western frieze, step by step, the figures become quieter in their character, changing from martial scenes to those of religious rites. The whole of this Panathenaic frieze now forms one of the most splendid of the works of art. The sculpturing is delicate and clear while the positions could be hardly more...