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...marked the days when Minos ruled the sea. Both of them are strangely metamorphosed by many whimsical legends which bear more or less on Knossian history. It is important to note, however, that the discoveries just made at Knossos indicate the palace at Knossos to have been of earlier date than the strongholds at Tiryns and Mycenae, as Homer intimates, this might be explained by noting that Crete was at the centre while Mycenae and Tiryns were more nearly on the outskirts of Mycenaean civilization, and that Knossos was further back in point of time than either of the other...
Some of the leading nations of Europe, such as Prussia, the North German Union, Austria and Belgium were slow to recognize the position maintained by the United States and Great Britain did not finally yield until 1870, the date of our treaty of naturalization with that country...
...University Catalogue for 1900-'01, which has just appeared, is the same as usual in general form and contains 734 pages, an increase of eighteen over last year. Following are the enrolment figures to date, compared with those of last year: Students. 00'-'01. '99-'00 College Seniors, 388 310 Juniors, 380 392 Sophomores, 536 508 Freshmen, 537 498 Special Students, 151 194 1992 1902 Scientific School, 507 495 Graduate School, 341 326 Total under Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2840 2723 Divinity School, 28 27 Law School, 647 613 Medical School, 605 558 Dental School, 126 131 Veterinary School...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Golf Association will be held in New York at the Holland House on Saturday afternoon, December 22. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Pennsylvania will send representatives. At this meeting the date for the intercollegiate team matches and championships to be field next spring will be decided upon, and officers will be elected. Harvard will be represented at the meeting by G. C. Clark, Jr., '01 and C. R. Henderson...
...mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make out that these Western systems of writing, centered in Crete, go back to the date of the early Egyptian Hieratic script selected as the model of the Phoenician alphabet by Count Emmanuel de Rouge's theory and thus, if theory is abandoned, and a derivation from Cretan pictographs is substituted, we have a more or less ascertained history to substitute for de-Rouge's backward...