Word: clay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grattan. 3, Harry Edwin Burton, The Battle of Gettysburg. G. W. Curtis. 4, Asaph Swift Wicks, Against Secession.- Daniel Webster. 5, Charles Martin Thayer, The Ordinance of 1787.- G. F. Hoar. 6, William Loftus Monro, Anselmo, the Priest.- Mrs. Constance Runcie. 7, William Homer Warren, The Greek revolution.- Henry Clay. (Intermission of five minutes). 8, Clement Garnett Morgan, The Emancipation proclamation.- Carl Schurz. 9, Thornton Woodbury, The Memories of Middlesex.- Rufus Choate. 10, Robert John Cary, Toussaint L' Ouverture.- Wendell Phillips. 11, Charles Washington Luck, The Benediction.- Francois Foppee. 12, Herbert Henry Darling, Daniel O'Connell.- Wendell Phillips. 13, Isaac...
...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 in the shape of prisms, cylinders and tablets. Besides such documents there are others of the nature of historical compilations, while still others are proclamations or letters from the king, petitions to him or reports from his generals and his governors. The total impression made by such records when...
...early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts have been made...
...Owing for January, a worthy holiday number of the magazine, will be published the following principal articles: "Among the Taurus Mountains," by L. B. Platt; "Mask and Foil for Ladies." by Charles E. Clay; "Fast Ice Yachts," by Col. Chas. H. Norton; the "Lake Champlain Yacht Club," by Fred. G. Mather, and "Hints to Football Captains," by Walter C. Camp. In addition to these are the concluding installments of two excellent papers, the first of the series on "American College Athletics," Harvard University, by J. Mott Hallowell, and "Sport-Past, Present and Future," by Alex. Hunter...
...January and February, a course of ten lectures on Old Testament Archaeology will be delivered at the University of Pennsylvania by eminent American scholars, including Professor Lyon, of Harvard; Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, Rev. W. Hayes Ward, Prof. W. R. Harper, of Yale; Rev. Dr. H. C. McCook, Prof. Richard Gotthrell, of Columbia; Prof. A. L. Frothingham, of Princeton, and others...