Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...drawings, we are privately informed are almost all by the editors. The best is a clever caricature on the first page, which gives point to an ancient jest. The centre page will wake a responsive chord in the breasts of many. "Everybody's Dance" admirably sets forth a social tragedy. There are funny things too in the picture of the "Junior Dance" on the last page...
...first of a course of eight Lowell Institute lectures on the "Early History and Recent Development of the Atomic Theory" in Huntington Hall, Boston, next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The first lecture will be on "Dalton's Atomic Theory and its Relation to that of the Ancient Philosophers"; the other lectures wil be given as follows: Thursday, February 20, "Avogradro's Molecular Theory and its Relation to Dalton's Atomic Theory"; Monday, February 24, "Atomic Weights and Faraday's Law"; Thursday, February 27, "Molecular Structure"; Monday March 2, "The Periodic System of the Elements and the Kinetic Theory...
...Egyptian government to have this territory thoroughly explored for archacological remains before it is covered with water. With several trained assistants and a large force of workmen Professor Reisner entered on his work in September last, and in the first month's work his party discovered five ancient cemeteries and opened over 3000 tombs, with many remarkable discoveries of ancient archaeological remains. It is hoped that the labor may be completed in three years...
...stories which fill the greater part of its sixteen pages, not one is particularly original in conception or remarkable in treatment. The most original, so far as there is any distinction to be made, is an unsigned contribution called "The Dream Lady," in which, though the theme is an ancient one, the manner of presenting it goes far to redeem the commonplaceness of the subject. Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Fleshings and a White Pony" contains the elements of a good story, but the setting is badly chosen. It seems hardly likely that even a circus rider would pour...
...LECTURE. "Ancient Rome and its Environs." II. (Illustrated by the stereopticon). Professor Clifford H. Moore. Harvard...