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...Corinth. The J. P. Morgan-financed diggers at Corinth, having removed 5,000 tons of earth, beheld the first example known of large-scale Greek painting-a decoration upon the guard walls of an arena, showing gladiatorial combats lifesize, in color. A Targe Roman villa of the First Century A. D. yielded floor mosaics that are "without doubt the finest thing of the sort yet found in Greece," according to Dr. T. Leslie Shear of the American School of Classical Studies...
...Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe...
...Sisyphus?in Greek mythology, a king of Corinth, condemned in Hades to roll uphill a huge stone that always rolled down again...
Hermann Hagedorn was an instructor of English at the University for several years and has written a number of plays which have been produced by the University Dramatic Club. He has also written many poems, among which are "The Woman of Corinth," "A Troop of the Guard, and Other Poems," and a volume of "Poems and Ballads...
Governing Board: Graham Burt Blaine '17, of Taunton; Kent Bromley '16, of East Corinth, Vt.; Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr., '17, of Boston; Eric Alexander Douglas '17, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Richard Harte '17, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Malcolm Justin Logan '15, of South Boston...