Word: undertook
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...Atlantic Monthly for February is published a study by President Eliot on American liquor laws. In 1893 about fifty men were writing in co-operation on various sociological topics and undertook a detailed study of the liquor problem. The work was divided between four committees. The legislative committee was composed of President Eliot, James C. Carter of the Board of Overseers and President Seth Low of Columbia...
...lecturer then undertook a periegesis of the citadel, with the aid of a plan and many pictures, and described in detail its defences, gateways, and temples,- the Parthenon, built by Pericles; the old temple of Athena, which Dr. Dorpfeld himself discovered and named; and finally the Erechtheum, that most beautiful of the buildings of ancient Athens. The well-known Porch of the Maidens, or Caryatids, he believes to have been the approach to the grave of Cecrops...
Schliemann sided with the inhabitants of ancient Ilion, and in 1870 undertook excavations, which he continued until 1890, on the hill now called Hissarlik. After Schliemann's death these excavations were continued by Professor Dorpfeld until 1894, first at the expense of Mrs. Schliemann and then at the expense of the German emperor...
...Greece. After his work at Olympia he carried on the excavations at Troy with Dr. Schliemann, and although Dr. Schliemann's name is more familiar in connection with Troy, it was really Dr. Dorpfeld's technical skill and wide experience that made the former's works possible. He next undertook with Schliemann excavations at Tiryns, Orchomenos, and in Crete; and, after Schliemann's death, returned to complete the work at Troy. His most important work after this has been in Greece, especially in and around Athens. As a result of his researches the buildings of the Acropolis appear...
...conclusion, Dr. Donald said it was because he believed that there was religion at Harvard that he undertook his work as preacher to the University. Having served four years, he wished to testify how wide and deep the religious spirit is. Religion at Harvard will die only when Harvard itself shall cease...