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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peters, one of the few great American explorers who have worked among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
...Yale Club of New York will give a dinner tonight at Sherry's in honor of President Hadley. Invitations have been sent to prominent Yale men throughout the country, and among the speakers will be Judge Howland and Hon. Chauncey M. Depew...
...Student Volunteer Committee will make its regular December clothing collection today, and the dormitories will be canvassed "during the hours of 2-3 and 7-8 o'clock. The clothes are distributed among the poor of Boston and vicinity. Men living in private houses can get the committee's collection wagon to call later in the week by sending work to S. B. Snow, Matthews 18. In view of the fact that many laundry bundles were stolen from the dormitories last week, it is advisable that men expecting to be away at these hours should previously deliver clothing...
...Century of Science" is the title of a new book published for John Fiske '65, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is dedicated to Thomas Sergeant Perry, Professor of English Literature in the Keio Gijuku at Tokyo. The book contains fourteen articles, some of them addresses and others reviews. Among the subjects treated are the following: "Cambridge as Village and City," "Francis Parkman," "Sir Harry Vane," and "The Bacon-Shakespeare Folly...
...Dixwell left the Latin School and established a private school on Boylston place, where he taught for twenty years. Senator Lodge and Governor Wolcott were among his pupils. He gave up his work as a teacher in 1871, and retired to his home in Cambridge, where he had been living up to the time of his death. Mr. Dixwell was one of Harvard's oldest graduates...