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...Harvard Alphabet," a book of rhymes on the humorous side of college life, by W. B. Wheelwright '01, F. R. DuBois '01, and H. W. Palmer '01, illustrated by J. G. Cole '01 and R. Edwards '01, will be put on sale today...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...
Besides the many discoveries in Crete in art and workmanship, Mr. Arthur Evans has brought new light on the origin of our alphabet, thus making it more western and Mycenaean in its source than has been commonly supposed. In religion also, much has been shown from the recent discoveries in Crete...
...contained a large number of inscriptions, both in pictorial and linear writing. Up to the present time however no one has been able to translate them. The lecture to night will be of an introductory nature. On Tuesday and Friday nights the lectures will take up this ancient Cretan alphabet and the discoveries at Knossos and the Dictaen Cave. The three lectures will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
...assignments for the class photographs have been completed; and of over four hundred and fifty men, all but about a dozen (mostly in the latter part of the alphabet) have responded to the notices. These last delinquents are reminded that they must "sit" before the recess...