Word: area
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre at Athens, the cradle, as it were, of the drama, where Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden hut, or skene. This was the origin of the "stage" building. In the fourth century the theatre was rebuilt...
...Moselle respectively. The region drained by the Meuse is very narrow. The river itself is like the trimmed Lombardy poplars which grew along the roadsides in France, having a long slim trunk and few branches. Unlike the Meuse the Seine and the Moselle draw their waters from a wide area...
...asphalt-area on the north side of the Gymnasium is now available for exercising purposes. On and after Monday, January 13, the five o'clock developing class will take their exercises in the air, weather permitting, and those students desiring to exercise with this class are requested to govern themselves accordingly...
Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...
...mountain, and thence going to the central shaft of the tunnel where the dumps illustrate many varieties of these rocks. In the afternoon, proceeding over the crest of the mountain to the station at the east portal of the tunnel, something will be seen of the topography of the area between the Connecticut and Hoosac Rivers...