Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large and valuable library was found after a long and tedious research in the ruins of Nineveh. From this library we get our information about the knowledge of the Assyrians. The only other country whose history and civilization dates back to 4000 years before Christ besides Assyria, is Egypt. Most Assyrian monuments were built of brick, and therefore have almost entirely disappeared...
...training yesterday afternoon. They will practice in the cage an hour a day, and will pay particular attention to batting. They will be coached by Jesse Dann, the captain of the team, and by O'Rourke of the New Yorks, who is in the Law School. Dann, the great back stop, is to try his hand at pitching, so that in the event of any accident to Stagg, the regular university pitcher, there will be some one to take his place. The outlook for next season is considered here to be very promising. Harvard, the only antagonist Yale really fears...
...archaeology are apt to fall and they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems to be to make a study of historical facts and examples...
Beecher, Yale, '88, the famous quarter-back, has now entirely recovered from his sickness and is attending to his duties at college...
...hydraulic rowing machines for the class crews have not yet been returned from the repair shop, but are expected back in a few days...