Word: east
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...Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria...
They are on the lookout up at the observatory for that rare and brilliant celestial visitor in the constellation, Cassiopea, which appeared last in 1572 and led Tycho Brahe to the study of astronomy. It is supposed to be the star in the East that appeared to the Magi at the birth of Jesus...
...friends of higher education must rejoice in the announcement that the Pacific States are to possess a university which bids fair to rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future...
Sulla brought to Rome the library of Aristotle which had been enlarged by his disciple Theophrastus. The apartment used for a library must face the East, so that the owner might spend the early morning hours in reading. A private library of seven hundred volumes was discovered at Herculaneum in the end of the eighteenth century...
...founders of our college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come down to us in our college regulations making the Christmas recess as short as possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened...