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...Charles G. Dawes took train for Minnesota. He spoke at Rochester, Zumbrota, Red Wing, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Anoka, St. Cloud,* Lake City, Wabasha, Winona (all in Minnesota), La Crosse, Sparta, New Lisbon, Portage, Madison, Stoughton, Janesville, Bardwell (in Wisconsin). Nearly all these speeches, made in three arduous days, were delivered from the rear platform. Typical remarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Alarums & Excursions | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

Prior to the extraordinary discoveries of Dr. Schliemann on the supposed site of the windy city some decades ago, the whole history of Troy and its attackers and defenders was popularly supposed to be nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE | 5/6/1924 | See Source »

...conference ended with the election of officers for the coming year, which are as follows: President, H. E. Allen of the Yale News; Vice-President, Sparta Fritz of the Pennsylvanian; Secretary-Treasurer, W. B. Fairfax of the Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE JOURNALISTS HOLD FINAL SESSION | 5/14/1923 | See Source »

Syndicated and Signed Articles.--Sparta Fritz of Pennsylvania, chairman; Corliss Lamont '24; W. G. Holmes of Colgate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS DISCUSSIONS GO INTO COMMITTEE | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...classical group two prizes of $50 are offered to undergraduates as specified above, one of which is for a translation in Greek and the other in Latin. The subject for the Greek of the passage in J. B. Bury's "History of Greece," Chapter 12, Section 1, beginning with "Sparta had achieved the task," and ending with "from a friend of Lacedaemon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULES GOVERNING CURRENT BOWDOIN PRIZES EXPLAINED | 12/10/1919 | See Source »

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