Word: interests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon, Professor Lyon continued his course of lectures on Babylonian Books, and he devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria who lived somewhere between the years 1400 and 2000 B. C. Many of the specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited have arrived from London since his last lecture, and they are especially rare as showing the nature and customs of a prehistoric people. Rev. Dr. Ward of America and M. Mamont, have done much to collect seals and vases which contain the various modes of expression adopted by the early...
...concert may be taken as evidence that Cambridge people appreciate the efforts of this organization here not a little. If it is decided to give another course next year by the same quartet, it is to be hoped that college men will take a deeper and livelier interest in it than they have this year...
...first editorial criticises the man ner in which the English courses devoted to Shakespeare and Spencer are conducted. It urges greater attention to matter ann less to philology. The second is of more general interest. It shows that the only channels by which student opinion can find expression are the college papers; but that the graduates, the overseers, and the faculty, who especially should be in fluenced, seldom read the papers. It calls upon the students to recognize and insist upon their position, and thus compel outsiders to "turn to the papers that they may learn at leastone side...
...question that was discussed at the so-called mass meeting last evening is, despite any statements made to the contrary, one of the utmost importance and interest to the college as a whole; its decision one way or the other a this time involves much praise or blame to Harvard...
...varsity crew will go back to a cedar shell in stead of a paper shell which kind they have been using for several years. The boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest, it being a new departure in shell building. A chain of unbroken iron bracing runs from the stroke clear forward to number one thus giving great stiffness, and at the same the braces have been made as light as practicable in order not to weight the boat too much...