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...done and showed much exactness on the part of the writer. It was the custom for the people to wear seals inscribed with figures of deities, men and animals, as a protection against evil spirits, and these figures are often merely impressed upon the stone while still in the soft condition. Seals with writtings on various subjects have been found, and one of the most important ones we have shows that it was used in some important commercial transaction. An extra layer of stone was layed over the seal for protection, and upon the outside of this, writings similar...
...lecturer said that this little temple is one of the most beautiful specimens of Greek architecture which has been preserved. It is situated on the south of the Propylaea, and is built on the Pyrgos, a superstructure of the soft rock which the Athenians used in the foundations of their buildings; this Pyrgos rises about thirty feet above the bed-rock of the Acropolis. The time of the erection of the temple is somewhat doubtful, although Bohn advances technical proof tending to show that it belongs to the same period as the Propylaea. Pertelic marble was used in the construction...
...novel football game will be played in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, on March 7. The orchestra will be floored over and covered with soft matting, thus giving a field little smaller than the regulation size, and no harder than the turf. The ball will not be allowed to be kicked, and the game will be strictly a running one. The game will be between the regular University of Pennsylvania eleven and an amateur eleven known as the Rivertons, which will be strengthened by four well-known Princeton players-Hancock,'88, as quarter-back; Cowan, '88, and L. Price...
Owing to the soft condition of the wicket, the Harvard-Longwood game was not played Saturday...
...shoes for the nine are made of soft black kid, laced low on the foot, and are modelled on those worn in the League and Association...