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...specimen, one of the earliest examples of printing in the world and the only exhibit of its kind in America, is a Chinese prayer scroll, recovered from the famous Red Pagoda in Hangchow after nearly ten centuries of burial...
...England Primer, one of the earliest and most popular U. S. readers. Most of it was in verse, illustrated by quaint, sober drawings. Colonial moppets were taught the letter O thus...
Nathaniel Eaton, a Cambridge alumnus, was secured as Professor, and some time in the summer of 1638 he moved to Cambridge and received the first Freshmen. The site of this earliest college building, now covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees...
University Museum--home of geology, anthropology, glass flowers, etc. Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory. New Lecture Hall-home of History 1 and other large lecture courses. The New Lecture Hall was built in 1905, but, left unnamed, it has ever since retained its earliest appellation...
...years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...