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...Museum of Princeton College has grown very rapidly in the last few years. The museum now embraces the Sheldon Jackson and Trumbull-Prime collections, the collection of Etruscan potteries made by Professor Frothingham and several others, most of which are well known; and recently a collection of bronze medals, medallions and coins of Modern Europe and America has been presented to the college by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York. Perhaps the most interesting series of medals is the one cast in honor of the president of the United States by order of Congress. There is also an interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's Art Museum. | 2/20/1888 | See Source »

...Scholars are divided in opinion as to whether it is Etruscan, or Latin of the period of "The Song of the Arval Brothers." It is expected that a translation of them will be made the subject of a prize essay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

...general verdict is, and to this conclusion the writer is driven by the fate of several previously rejected essays on "Etruscan Philology," that people want to be amused, and take the papers chiefly for that end. Of course there are different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose that any one who could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON "THE LIMITS OF A COLLEGE PAPER." | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

Through an old Etruscan town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF MONTEFIASCONE.* | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

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