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...limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among these is Christ, who has brought forward almost conclusive philological evidence in regard to the order of composition of the parts of the Iliad. It is certain that they were composed in an order very different from that in which we have them. The question of authorship is more uncertain. One poet probably conceived the main plan of the Iliad, but the outline was filled in and considerably enlarged by later poets...
...that if Harvard intended to make a good showing in tennis, she must adopt in this, as in other sports, some organized system of development. The tennis league was the direct outgrowth of this idea. What good it has accomplished cannot of course be measured; but it is very certain that the number of good tennis players at Harvard is greater than it has ever been before, and is still on the increase. From this large number of good players, rather than from one or two "stars," Harvard looks for her future success...
...about as sure of five first prizes as any contestant in an athletic meeting can be sure of anything. This is taking it for granted that Sherrill will run. He may be counted on to win the one hundred and the two-twenty yards dashes. Yale is also practically certain to win first in the high hurdles, the broad jump, and the pole vault. Williams has done twenty-one feet, ten and three-quarters inches, in the broad jump, after having run two heats in the high hurdles. Again, it is doubtful whether Harvard will take first in the mile...
...well enough known here that Yale never seems to work harder for victory than when the odds are against her, and Harvard's winning the Berkeley Oval Cup last year will certainly inspire Yale with a most astounding anxiety to beat us in today's games and in the Intercollegiate's also. When the struggle is, under any circumstances, as close as today's will be; when Yale is practically certain to win first place in a dangerously large number of events, with this indomitable energy of her's at work to win first, second and third in every event...
...used as charms against evil spirits and also for stamping written documents. They are carved with emblems of the gods, men, animals, etc. A unique object is a lapislazuli disc about an inch and a half in diameter, once the property of a temple. It was presented to a certain god for the life of the donor,-perhaps for his rescue from some danger...