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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...General view of the contents of Babylonian books" was the subject of Professor Lyons lecture yesterday afternoon. The Babylonians and Assyrians had many libraries at Larsa, Cuthra, Sippar, Calah and Nineveh. From the last named, the youngest of all (668-626 B. C.) many of the most valuable books have come. The writings may be classed as historical, imaginative, religious, scientific and social. The historical records, giving the accounts of the royal wars, limits and erection of cities, palaces and temples, are written on rock mountain sides, on stone statues, monuments, and slabs, but especially on clay books...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...
...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...Trusts are an economic advantage. (a) by limiting production to demand. Quar. Jour. of Economics Jan. 1889, p. 136. (b) by improving the processes of production. N. Am. Review vol. 136, p. 181. (c) by preventing excessive competition. Age of Steel, Jan. 5, 1889. p. 14 (d) by lessening the fluctuations in prices. Pol. Sci. Quarterly...
...first prize in the running high kick was won by R. B. Ludington, '91, record 8 feet 9 inches. J. C. D. Kitchen, '91 was second...