Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Minor events which will take place during the week of the Junior Promenade are the Glee Club Concert and the Sophomore German, Jan. 16th, the reception of the University club, Jan. 17th, and the Junior and Senior Germans on the 18th...
...made any headway. In the 17th century a book was published purporting to translate an inscription on one of the tombs, but the translations were entirely false as every figure was thought to represent an idea, while some of them are only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly wasted, but in the latter part great progress was made and the final stroke was given by the discovery of the famous Rosetta Stone in 1799, which had an inscription in three languages, the Egyptian, Grecian, and Demotic. By means of the Greek, the other characters...
...United States expedition to Japan to observe the total eclipse of the sun on the 18th of August, accomplished nothing on account of the cloudy weather...
There will be an important meeting of the O. K. to-day (18th), at 2 o'clock in 31 Beck...
...Books: Lecky's England in the 18th century, vols. V, and VI,; Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness; Final Memorials of Longfellow; Verses from "Harvard Advocate;" Henry Clay; Obiter Dicta, 2nd series...