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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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n a hard knot! I would have done it, I think, only that it might take another twenty-three centuries to settle it, and I was afraid the shipwouldn't wait. If there is anyone who still does not believe that modern Athens is beautiful and a credit to her ancient name, let him visit as we did her modern temples. We had passed the ancient market entrance, the Tower of the Winds, and other of the old landmarks when suddenly we turned into a wonderful boulevard, and drove by or visited, one after another, the New Academy, the University, the National Library, the gallery of Fine Arts, and the National Museum. If Pericles were alive today he would approve of those buildings and add them to his collection. All the old classic grace and beauty have been preserved in the same pure white pentelican marble, of which it is estimated that there is enough to last any city five thousand years. Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric columns that might have come from the Acropolis itself—and did, in design—adorn and__.
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THE CHAPERONE STANDING IN REVERENTIAL AWE BEFORE THE MARBLE WOMEN OF THE ERECTHEUM. the old and lend their ineffable glory to the rehabilitation of Greece. We have learned, by the way, to distinguish the kinds of columns. They were all just Greek to us at first, but we know them now. When we see a column. with acanthus leaves on the capital we know it is Corinthian, because we remember the story of the girl of Corinth who planted acanthus on her lovers grave and put a hollow tile around it for protection. Some of the leaves came up outside of the tile by and by and a young architect came along and got his idea for the Corinthian capital. 436 THE OUTING MAGAZINE We know the Ionic, too, because it looks like its initial—a capital I with a little curly top—and we say I is for Ionic; and we can tell the Doric because its the only one that doesn't suggest anything particular to remember it by. Its worth coming to Greece to learn these things. We should never have learned them at home—never in the it

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