Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor D. G. Lyon then gave a short address on the letters found in 1887 in the ruins of Amarna, half way between Thebes and Memphis. These letters, some 300 in number, deal with wars, invasions, etc., and usually begin with lengthy greetings. The writing is in the Babylonish script on clay tablets, some of which are remarkably well preserved. These tablets are of great importance as they serve to show the far reaching influence of Babylon on the shores of the Mediterranean...
...conclusion of Professor Lyon's address an informal reception was held and refreshments served...
...Lyon spoke at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association last evening on a text from the fifteenth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke. When the regular meeting was over, the president of the association called a business meeting. D. C. Torrey '90 proposed that the society reprint five thousand copies of the article enticed "Harvard's Better Self," by W. R. Bigelow, which appeared recently in the New England Magazine. The motion was passed. It will cost $125 to print and send out five thousand copies...
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- Professor D. G. Lyon will address the association this evening at 6.30 in Lawrence Hall. All are cordially invited...
...Englishman and an American write on arbitration and on the future of warfare, and it is Sir Lyon Play fair, belonging to the nation which, with its "hearts of oak" and mighty ironclads, has ever ruled the waves, who advocates peace, while Captain Zalinski, of the commercial republic, is the prophet of warfare...