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...graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos, the two other ancient citadels in the Argive plain, still wait for the spade of some enterprising excavator...
...ancient Troy; Xerxes and Alexander the Great visited the place that they might see the scene of the action of the Trojan war. The geographer Strabo, however, and some other ancient writers were of a different opinion. They removed Troy to a site four miles further east. Among modern scholars, some have denied the existence of Troy altogether; others, as Curtius and Kiepert, have placed it six miles further toward the south, near Bunarbaschi...
...service in Appleton Chapel, last evening, was conducted by Rev. George Alexander, D. D., of New York, who took as his text, Acts, II-17: "And your young men shall see visions." The theme of the sermon was the need of ideals in view of the modern custom of subjecting everything to criticism on a scientific basis; since through idealism comes the true interpretation of those visions which have caused the progress of humanity...
English 8. Modern Literature-Prose Writers of the Nineteenth Century. Instructor, R. N. Cross...
English 9. Modern Literature-Poets of the Nineteenth Century. Instructor...