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...source of much congratulation to the University that the registration list for 1896-97 shows a material increase. That the University-in spite of the wide-spread financial distress, in spite of the great political crisis now confronting the country, has gone on calmly and steadily growing, is indeed encouraging. It seems to point to a time in the near future when the annual increase will be much larger...
...public with a vividness never before possible the glories of ancient 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...
...University has suffered an irreparable loss in the deaths of Professor Child and Professor Whitney. Both were masters in their different branches of learning, of world wide reputation, and universally beloved and esteemed. The Faculty of our University has lost two wise and trusted counselors, and the students have lost two able and devoted teachers...
...seemed tired and the game was listless. The only man on the Nine who seemed wide awake was Chandler, who accepted all his chances, and made a star one-hand catch of a low line ball in the sixth...
...large map accompanying the Memoir gives a general view of the ruins showing the position of the pyramids upon which stand the temples and other buildings, portions of which are covered with sculptures. Extending to the top of one of these pyramids is a stairway about forty feet wide and one hundred feet high. The front of each step of this stairway is elaborately carved with hieroglyphs and here and there a human figure...