Word: folios
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the many accounts of intercollegiate competition there will soon be conspicuous a neat, unpretentious folio of about sixty pages, entitled "Harvard Teams, 1898-1899." The editors, W. B. Wheelwright '01, and A. M. Goodridge '00, have dedicated their book "To the successful Harvard teams of the College year 1898-1899." The chronologically arranged accounts of the athletic, debating, chess and whist teams are supplemented by eleven cuts, with that of the 'Varsity football team as a frontispiece. Football, baseball, the track and rowing are all mentioned with some detail, and the other reading-matter is concise...
They are originals of plates one and two of Frederick Catherwood's folio publication on the ancient monuments of Central America, published in London in 1844, and were made by him from his sketches of the ruins of Copan in 1839. The casts of these idols are now on exhibition in the Museum...
Geological Conference. Paper: Ice Action on the Shore of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Mr. E. P. Carey.- The Geological Folio of the Anthracite-crested Butte, Colorado. Mr. F. C. Schrader. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Paper: Ice Action on the Shore of Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Mr. E. P. Carey.- The Geological Folio of the Anthracite-crested Butte, Colorado. Mr. F. C. Schrader. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations. He excavated near Nineveh an old Assyrian palace, probably built about 700 B. C. The palace has over two hundred chambers. This great discovery is exhaustively described and illustrated in five folio volumes on the subject published by the French government. Mr. Austin Henry Layard, an Englishman, took up the work at Nineveh in 1845-7. Victor Place made some valuable excavations at Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta...