. The Burton Holmes lectures;. ILLUMINATIONS for the composition of the best ode in Ancient Greek. It isan Englishman from Oxford University who has proved tliathe can write a better ode in ancient Greek than any of thedescendants of the poet Pindar who sang the fame of theOlympianikes in the days of old. The herald, taking up the list of victors, cries in modernGreek: Amerikis, Burke. Dromos ekaton-metron, andfifteen centuries look down on the sligiit, graceful figure ofthe youth who, mounting to the royal platform, receives fromthe hand of the King of Greece the first Olympian olive S6 THE O
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. ILLUMINATIONS for the composition of the best ode in Ancient Greek. It isan Englishman from Oxford University who has proved tliathe can write a better ode in ancient Greek than any of thedescendants of the poet Pindar who sang the fame of theOlympianikes in the days of old. The herald, taking up the list of victors, cries in modernGreek: Amerikis, Burke. Dromos ekaton-metron, andfifteen centuries look down on the sligiit, graceful figure ofthe youth who, mounting to the royal platform, receives fromthe hand of the King of Greece the first Olympian olive S6 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES. TO THE AMERICAN INVINCIBLES branch ever bestowed since that far-off day in the year of ourLord 394, when the last of the old Olympiads was solemnlyinaugurated in the land of Elis. The name of the winner ofthe one-hundred-meter race was always given to the quad-rennial period following the games. Therefore the last fouryears of the nineteenth century must be known to history asthe Olympiad of Thomas Burke, of Boston ! It must have been a thrilling moment for him as he stoodthere face to face with the King, the Crown-Prince, anda host of royal personages, while on every side there arosetier on tier of eager faces, a cloud of witnesses which seemedto touch the sky — that same blue sky of Greece which haslooked down upon so many heroes. But again the heralds voice is heard Dromos tetra-kosioi-metron, and the prizes for the four-hundred-meter raceare thrust into the already well-filled arms of Burke, who,with his double set of trophies, bows himself from the roval
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