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Question: "Resolved, That the woolen industries of New England can not flourish permanently unless the duties upon raw wool are removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 12/7/1889 | See Source »

...Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language but in the Hebrew written character the receiver could have understood it with ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented the alphabet and thus placed the whole world under obligation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babylonian Books. | 3/26/1889 | See Source »

Such an educational centre must necessarily be of slow growth. It cannot be puffed up by money alone, but it needs a recognized intellectual superiority; neither can it flourish if it lacks financial support. Millionaires about to dial If you wish to leave a university behind you, take note of the fable of the frog and the ox. Puff not up the frog, but give good pasture to the ox.- Advertiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American "University." | 2/14/1888 | See Source »

...great variety of athletic sports flourish at the University and are pursued with enthusiasm. President Eliot believes that the best way to raise the standard of the athletic contests is to reduce the number of competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Annual Reports. | 1/31/1888 | See Source »

...library, herbarium and observatory are shown to be in excellent condition. Of the summer courses, the report says that they have been serviceable to teachers and schools, and have helped to introduce into the secondary schools a rational teaching of science. The great variety of athletic sports which flourish at the university seems to the president to be "useful to the general end of cultivating bodily strength and skill and assuring physical health." Commenting further on athletics, he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Eliot's Report. | 1/27/1888 | See Source »

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