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...classes," who hold off from the first group partly from disapproval and partly from disapproval and partly from inability to break social barriers; and the third, a group far greater than is generally realized, consists of those who have, by dint of extraordinary grit and determination, worked their rough-hewn way to learning. If these three classes could be welded together, and if the consequent result could be brought clearly before the nation's eyes, Dr. Fitch feels that Harvard will have gone far toward setting a firm claim on the title of "the national university." At present...
...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...