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...American Exploration Society has recently presented to the Peabody Museum one of the sixteen sarcophagi found in the necropolis of the ancient city of Musarna in the territory of Viterbo, Western Italy. The district, lying mainly on the banks of the river Leia, is now a part of the estate of Signor Alarico Pratti. The sarcophagus weighs 3300 pounds and is still in the basement of the Museum. It was found in a tomb that had already been ransacked by spoliators and which contained two chambers. Access was gained to the first chamber by the usual gallery...
...Eastern and Aegaean shores of the Mediterranean, including Asia Minor, that witnessed the earliest development of what may be called a Western civilization. In the Western part of this East-Mediterranean area, Mr. Arthur Evans in 1894 found some records of an ancient Western system of writing, an outgrowth of the early savage pictograph made in all parts of the Mediterranean district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make...
These lectures are based upon the recent discoveries in the Island of Crete by Mr. Arthur Evans, of Oxford, Director of the National Museum. It was in this island that Mr. Evans found the remains of an ancient temple, built 1400 years before Christ, which 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...
...University Debating Club at the Lenox Hotel, Boston, last night. About a hundred men were present from the four classes and in addition several graduates as guests. S. B. Rosenthal, President of the University Debating Club, was toastmaster. The following toasts were responded to: "Coaching," W. S. Youngman '95; "Ancient History," R. C. Bolling '99; "Oratory," Mr. J. L. Winter; "Politics," Hon. F. W. Dallinger '95; "Impromptu Speaking," R. C. Ringwalt 3L; "The Future," Professor Baker; "Graduate Feeling," R. C. Surbridge '89. Speeches were also made, for the University team, by R. C. Bruce '02, M. Seasongood...
...Coaching," W. S. Youngman '95; "Ancient History," A. P. Stone '93; "Oratory," Mr. I. L. Winter; "Politics," F. W. Dallinger '93; "Graduate Feeling," R. C. Surbridge '89; "The Future of Debating," Professor Baker; "Impromptu Speaking", R. C. Ringwalt...