Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McPherson had a walkover in the bantamweight sparring, because his only opponent, G. S. McPherson, '89, was found to be overweight...
Yesterday afternoon Professor Lyon lectured on the decipherment of the Babylonian books. He said that had Babylonian writings not been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula...
...Peabody may be found at Wadsworth House 1 every weekday from...
Yale students pulled over the statue of Professor Benjamin Silliman last Monday night. If the offenders are found they will probably be suspended...
...baseball season tickets. Their price has been reduced so as to bring them within the reach of all and it is therefore earnestly hoped that as many as can will avail themselves of one of the three opportunities when tickets will be for sale. Full particulars may be found in the notice column...