Word: etc
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale letter to the Boston Sunday Herald, the old chestnut is again brought forth that the material for the 'varsity nine is exceedingly poor, that there are only two good all-round players in college, etc., ad infinitum...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria. - Historical sketch from Sargon I. to Nabonidus. The great art-centres and their historical relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah...
...literature is divided into three classes, Religious, Scientific and Historical. The first class consists of epic poems, hymns, prayers and incantations; the second of books of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, grammar, etc.; the third of law documents, lists of magistrates, records of the dynasties, etc. Dr. Frothingham dwelt on the Mythology of the Assyrians, comparing it with the Mythology of Greece. He read several interesting extracts from poems and historical accounts. He will devote the next lecture solely to Assyrian and Babylonian...
This work if followed in all its details might make a good memory, and undoubtedly would benefit anyone, but such rules as, "eat carefully," "drink carefully," etc., are not always obeyed, even though they have been dictated to the world by many writers for years, and the inevitable result of carelessness in eating and drinking shown. Such rules for improving the memory are then useless we think. Yet the book has many valuable suggestions in it, anyone of which would do one good. A chapter on the use of Narcotics is an example. Towards the end of the book...
...present candidates have been divided into three squads. The first comprises the runners, jumpers, etc., and will be on the floor ready to exercise at 4.15 every afternoon. It consists of the following men: Clark, '87, (captain); Wells, L. S.; Rogers, '87; Gardner, '87; G. P. Cogswell, '88; C. N. Cogswell, '88; Dana, '88; Lund. '88; Rolfe, '88; Bailey, '89; Merrill, '89; Perry, '89; Scott, '89; Brown, '90; J. Crane, '90; W. S. Crane, '90; Endicott, '90; Dickerman, '90; Gorham, '90; Magoun, '90; Meyer, '90; Payson, '90; Strout, '90; Sturgis, '90. The second squad will exercise at 4.30. It consists...