Word: hands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Assyriologists is very characteristic. The English work has all been done, or at least begun, by individuals, but in France the government has carried on the work from first to last. The English have been especially interested in the Biblical side of the discoveries. The French on the other hand have made a special study of Assyrian art. Finally the Germans are the linguists and philologists. To them we owe the best dictionaries, catalogues, and the most precise interpretations and discipherments...
...first great intercollegiate debate of the year is now close at hand, and the participants have entered upon their few days of final preparation. This will be the second annual debate with Princeton. It is needless to tell again what a glorious record Harvard has in debating. It is very true that among the students of other colleges the present reputation of this University rests chiefly upon the skill of the speakers who have represented her in debate. It is clear to every one how much is involved in the contest that is to take place on Friday evening...
...TOWNER, Sec.ALL Harvard Union, Forum and Freshman Debating Society men who desire to attend the banquet following the debate must hand their names with the necessary money to me before Wednesday night...
...maps of South America, said the speaker, are some of them relevant to the subject in hand; others are irrelevant. Of the former there are four classes. The first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...
...LITTLE, JR.ALL Harvard Union, Forum and Freshman Debating Society men who desire to attend the banquet following the debate must hand their names with the necessary money to me before Wednesday night...