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...Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage was really the support of the scenery and furnished a background for both actors and chorus who played in the orchestra. The announcement of such results attained by a trained architect as well as scholar lead Professor White, who had long been dissatisfied with the adaptablity of the old theory to the practical setting of a play, to undertake a thorough...
...trophies for the Yale nine were on exhibition for the first time at the Promenade. They consisted as usual of flags of silk of blue background, on the one side being the name "Harvard" on a crimson back, with the scores of the series, and on the other the name "Princeton" on an orange back with the scores of the series. There was a further adornment of crossed bats with the name of the member and the position played...
...afternoon, winning by two birds. The match was very close throughout, the teams being tied four or five times, and it was only by steady, hard shooting that Harvard won. The greater part of the match was shot in the rain, which, with a slight mist, and a dark background, made the birds hard to see. The Harvard team shot steadily, and although none of the individual scores were as high as one made by a member of the Country club team, the work of the team was extremely good, especially when the conditions under which the match was shot...
...firm of Bailey, Banks and Biddell, of Philadelphia, has offered, through the Athletic Club of the Schuylkill Navy, a new kind of championship trophy to the Amateur Athletie Union of the United States, recently organized. It is a solid silver plaque with a background of plush, framed in carved oak. It has engraved on its surface 23 disks, which represent walking, throwing the shot, tennis, running, lacrosse, skating, fencing, rowing, swimming, bicycling, boxing, and other sports embraced in the union...
...from those of later times. The series of stereopticon views used to illustrate this incident gave a good idea of the artistic progress of the vase-makers, beginning with the stiff and conventional figures of the early vases and continuing down to the time when landscape and a background were introduced. The abduction of Helen by Paris was a fruitful theme which gave rise to several beautiful representations. Pictures of some of the masterpieces of Greek vase-painting were shown, and the ludicrous figures of the archaic vases were most amusingly commented upon by the lecturer, whose remarks called forth...