Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tall clock of rough-hewn oak has been installed in the Living Room. On the front of the case the Union seal and the inscription. "Given to the Harvard Union by the class of '78," are carved in the wood. The old Dutch clock formerly in the northeast corner of the Living Room has been moved up-starts to the ladies dining room...
Professor D. G. Lyon, Curator of the Semitic Museum, will give the second of his series of five illustrated lectures on Egypt and Palestine this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject will be "The Temples and Rock-hewn Tombs of Thebes...
...Lecture. Egypt and Palestine. II. The Temples and Rock-hewn Tombs of Thebes, (Illustrated.) Professor Lyon. Fogg Lecture Room...
...carried away by business companies or by the Arab traders. The country has been the scene of some of the greatest events and periods of the world's history, and traces and records of these periods, now being obliterated, could be brought to light by careful scientific search. Caverns hewn in the rock and various stone implements of a prehistoric age have been discovered, and relics are often found of the period of the rule over Palestine of the Babylonians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Philistines, the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, and the Turks...