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Important discoveries which are said to have supplied much of the hitherto obscure history of ancient Ethiopia have been made recently by the Eqyptian expedition sent by the University and the Boston Museum of Fine Ants under the direction of Dr. George Andrew Reisner '89. In a recent report Dr. Reisner said that during excavations at Gebel Barkal, material bearing on the whole period between 1600 B. C. and 100 A. D. had been found and that prospects were that further excavations would bring to light objects of still greater importance...
...University of Chicago, contains the William Belden Noble lectures, which were delivered at the University in 1916. Professor C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion and discusses ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults and early Christianity. Another addition to the Harvard Theological Studies is "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic," by Professor W. H. P. Hatch '98, of the General Theological Seminary...
...year 1916-17 a prize will be offered in each one of the groups numbered 1, 2 and 3. 1: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering; 2: Biology, Geology, Anthropology and Forestry; 3: Foreign Languages and Literature, ancient and modern...
...bright hope is offered that chess may again obtain the high place its history demands, and the amusement and relaxation of Khufu, of Solomon and of Archimedes, regain its ancient luster. The sightless couriers of the air have been harnessed to bring unseen thought from the far corners of the earth. The very winds will rattle to the messages of opposing plays, even as they now rattle to the cabalistic numerals of the quarterbacks on any Saturday afternoon. What incentive will be given to the young Edisons, with their apparatus of chicken wire and a clothes pole, to catch from...
...bound to be shocked by the book and the people who are naturally disposed to be deeply interested by it. Mr. Wright is of the latter group. His praise is nevertheless discriminating, and he deals sympathetically with the qualities in the author that enable him to see ancient Syria through modern eyes...