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...George A. Reisner, as related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where the architectural and other remains of antiquity betray the presence of kings more ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata...
January 24.--"Cataract, Its Nature and Treatment," by Dr. Alexander Quackenboss...
January 24--Dr. Alexander Quackenboss M.D. '92 on "Cataract; Its Nature and Treatment...
...picturesqueness,--the contestants decked out in gala attire, and the vast concourse of onlookers displaying ostentatiously their brilliant outing costumes. The umpire was at times whimsical and at the third inning called the game on account of dampness. But nothing daunted the two teams and they played on amid cataract and slough. At the end of the game the special delegates from the mathematical department declared the score to be 8 to 7 in favor of the Lampoons. The regular game will be played next week, and then, and then only, can a true estimate be made of the real...
...others in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The program will be as follows: "The Ballad of East and West," Kipling; Mrs. Malaprop, "The Rivals," Sheridan; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; The Village Dressmaker. "Timothy's 'Quest," Kate Douglas Wiggin; "The Cataract of Lodore," Southey; "A Female Jury," Arlo Bates; "L'Envoi," "The Seven Seas," Kipling...