Word: antiquarians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Putnam, curator of the Peabody Musium has returned from a geological trip to New Jersey. On his way home he lectured at Worcester before the Antiquarian society...
...less than three of the articles in the Atlantic Monthly for June are from the pen of Harvard professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sever 11 Professor Lyon will lecture on the new collection of Babylonian antiquities consisting of books, seals and gems. The lecture is open to the public and will prove interesting to anyone with a taste for antiquarian researh...
...Clerke, and Thomas Harvard, Citizen and Cloth worker of London,' of certain tenements in the parish of Allhallows, Barking, the lease bearing date July 29th, 1635, and the counterpart being executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard. A feature of no little interest is that this is not an antiquarian curiosity whose history has to be traced, with more or less of uncertainty and doubt, from one hand to another during a period of 250 years, but a document which not only is in legal custody, but in the self-same custody into which it passed so soon...
There is one circumstance which invests the present discovery with peculiar value and intere St. The document containing the signature has not passed into the domain of antiquarian curiosity; it has not been picked up for an old song, to be resold for a large sum at a literary auction; nor have we to trace its history from one person to another, as best we can, during a period of two centuries and a half, because it is to day in the same custody to which it was committed the moment the ink was dry from the pens...