Word: old
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...Louis Dyer, M.A., gave the last of his lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking as his special subject "Old Knossos and the Labyriuth of Minos." He said in part...
Everyone associates with Knossos the old legend of the Labyrinth and its Minotaur. The atr cities of this legend however were recognized in Plutarch's day as inventions, due chiefly to Athenian patriotism, which glorified Theseus at the expense of Minos. Nevertheless, Minos is in reality the sole and genuine embodiment of the political greatness achieved in Mycenaean days, just as Daedalus, the architect of Minos, impersonates the marvellous skill in handicrafts and arts that marked the days when Minos ruled the sea. Both of them are strangely metamorphosed by many whimsical legends which bear more or less on Knossian...
...looking through some of the old University catalogues recently, I discovered a fact that to me at least was of startling significance. The class which entered Harvard in 1890 contained 507 men, of whom 212 came from outside of Massachusetts, thus giving the outsiders a percentage of 41 8-10 of the whole class. In 1894 the entering class consisted of 567 members, with 270 from states other than Massachusetts. The percentage of outsiders in this case was 47 6-10. So far the statistics seemed satisfactory enough, showing as they did, a gain of nearly 6 per cent...
Lectures on Recent Discoveries in Crete. III. Old Knossos and the Labyrinth of Minos. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. Louis Dyer, of Oxford. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
General Oliver O. Howard, director of the Lincoln Memorial University in Kentucky, will speak at the Old Cambridge Baptist church tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock on "The Education of White Boys and Girls in the Cumber land Mountains." Abraham Lincoln was born in these mountains and it was in his honor that the university was named A cordial invitation to be present is extended...