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...from T to the end of the alphabet are requested to get sittings at Notman's this week. A large proportion of the men have either neglected to make appointments for sittings, or have broken appointments. Such men are seriously retarding the work on the album. The Committee wishes to ask them to make appointments this week. SENIOR PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...
...Harvard Alphabet" was to have appeared last spring, but through some accident the publication was delayed until now. It contains a verse and drawing for every letter in the alphabet, done by five members of the 1901 Lampoon board...
...Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make out that these Western systems of writing, centered in Crete, go back to the date of the early Egyptian Hieratic script selected as the model of the Phoenician alphabet by Count Emmanuel de Rouge's theory and thus, if theory is abandoned, and a derivation from Cretan pictographs is substituted, we have a more or less ascertained history to substitute for de-Rouge's backward leap of one thousand years...
...resemblances between Cretan pictographs actually discovered at Knossos by Mr. Evans, and the "Phoenician" alphabet of the Moabite stone are very numerous and striking. On the other hand, those pointed out by de Rouge with Egyptian Hieratic of the XII Dynasty are almost purely fanciful...
...hypothesis may be made that the Eteocretans migrated to southern Syria and there became Semitized as the Philistines of Holy Writ. They carried with them from Crete a system of pictographs which was renamed and perfected in Syria, and from which was derived the "Phoenician" alphabet which in later days was restored to its originators by Cadmus...