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sulphate. It was so soft that it needed a covering of 

 Hme plaster to protect it against the weather. The 

 palace was a square building covering about five acres, 

 or as big an area as Buckingham Palace, and had a 

 flat roof. In shape it was a hollow rectangle with a 

 central court open to the sky. The west wing stood 

 higher up the hillside and had fewer stories than the 

 east \ving, whose foundations sloped down to the 

 valley. Beyond the west wing there was another 

 court, and out to the north-west a smaller palace 

 connected with the main building by what Sir Arthur 

 Evans has called " the oldest paved road in Europe." 

 At a point in this road stood the theatre, and there 

 is nothing to prevent us from identifying it with the 

 dancing-place (clioros) which, so tradition tells us, 

 "Daedalus wrought in broad Knossos for fair-haired 

 Ariadne." ' It would hold about 500 spectators, who 

 made part or all of the " great throng that surrounded 

 the lovel}' dancing-place, fuU of glee," if we may trust 

 the same tradition. No doubt the boxing contests 

 and other forms of sport were held there. The Cretans, 

 to judge by the pictures which have been discovered, 

 were given to strenuous and e.xciting, possibly cruel, 

 forms of sport. A painted panel depicts a bull-fighting 

 scene. There are two girls and a boy, the girls dis- 

 tinguished from the boy by their white skin, although 

 all three wear the same sort of " cowboy " dress. A 

 bull, head down, is charging one of the girls, who 

 grips its horns in the attempt, apparently, to turn a 

 somersault over its back, a feat which the boy is repre- 

 sented as in the process of accomphshing. He is half- 

 way over, and the second girl stands ready to catch 

 him. 



V 

 The mass of buildings in the west wing of the palace 

 (for plan of the palace see Crete the Forerunner of 

 Greece, by C. H. and H. B. Hawes, p. 48) is divided 

 into two by a long corridor running north and south, 

 that in the east wing by one running east and west. 

 In the west corridor, which is 4 yards \vide and 66 yards 

 long, there still stand some of the huge stone vases, 

 " big enough," as Sir Arthur Evans has said, " to 

 hide the Forty Thieves." They were used for the 

 storage of grain, oil, wine, dried fruits, and the like. 

 Under the floors were strong cists, or stone chests, 

 some of them lined with lead, which probably would 

 contain the State treasures. In a narrow corridor 

 to the west of the south main entrance was found 

 the fresco painting of the cup-bearer, an astonishing 

 work of art. It represents a Minoan youth, of stiff 

 but not unpleasing dignity, carrjdng a gold and 

 silver vase before him. The fresco had fallen into the 

 corridor, where it was found when the connecting 

 wall broke down. 



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THE 



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has been compelled this year to refuse admission 

 to numbers of promising men and women, and 

 the demand for admission is so great that next 

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This condition of affairs is a reproach to a 

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The University of Liverpool provides the best 

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The departments of Tropical Medi= 

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' Homer, Iliad, xviii. 590. 



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