Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...easily deciphered. The second source of our knowledge of ancient Egypt is derived from the writings of the historian Manatho. He divided its history into dynasties, the first two being those of the gods, the second two of the demi-gods, and then the prehistoric kings. The 11th and 12th dynasties mark the era of the pyramids, from the 13th to the 18th dynasty, the obelisks. The mathematical genius of Egyptians was wonderful...
...Boston Post, May 12th.]The little Record is in a sad state of mind because it finds that the DAILY CRIMSON, a small sheet published at Harvard University, is mainly devoted to news about sports. Why should it not be? The CRIMSON is not conducted by the faculty in the interest of classics and sciences, and it aims at nothing higher than supplying items which relate to those outside interests and recreations which healthy young men everywhere ought to take part in during their leisure hours. To expect the CRIMSON to occupy the literary field of the "Advocate...
There will be a shooting match between the gun club of the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Shooting Club on the 12th of May at Watertown...
...associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea of corporation, college, corps, i. e., a juristic personality. The thirty-five or forty student-organizations called nations had acquired corporate rights at the end of the 12th century. The University of Bologna as an institution of learning is known as studium (sc., generale) Bononie. There were down to the 16th century two universities, those of Citramontani with 17 nations, and those of Ultra-Montani with 18 nations. At the head of each of these two universities there...
...account of the threatening weather, an audience somewhat smaller than usual gathered in Appleton Chapel last evening to hear the address of Rev. Washington Gladden. He chose his text from the 2d chapter of Titus, 11th and 12th verses; "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in the present...