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...early history of institutions. This gift numbering about three hundred volumes, can be considered as a supplement to a more valuable and a larger collection of works on the same subject, given to the library by Dr. Ross about one year ago. The former incomplete collection is now rendered almost perfect, and the library now possesses more works on this subject than any other library in the country. The books treat principally of the history and of the early political, civic and industrial institutions of mediaeval Germany, and will undoubtedly prove a great aid to students of history, political economy...
...Sanders Theatre last evening on "Alaska and its Indians." A large audience gathered, in spite of the disagreeable weather, and heard an interesting account of a remote and greatly misjudged portion of the United States. Dr. Jackson first described the vast extent of Alaska, stating that it was almost equal in size to all the states east of the Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities...
...subject which forms the topic of the lectures being given by Professor Lyon is one almost entirely new to students of the University. It was not until comparatively recently that American archaeologists made the first steps towards carrying out the projects of excavation and discovery in Babylonia and Assyria. In their first determined effort, however, they were signally successful, and the specimens of Babylonian books which they secured form the nucleus of a collection which it is to be hoped will increase from year to year as discoveries are made. It is upon this American collection together with the famous...
...ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts have been made by enthusiastic archaeologists, little has been accomplished when compared with the vast amount of research...
...previous in-door athletic meeting which Yale has ever held and a number of prominent athletes will contest. The rules which will govern all contests will be intercollegiate, allowing members of the A. A. U. and N. A. A. A. A. to compete. The first evening will be devoted almost wholly to events of interest to Yale men, and upon the second will be held the open events...