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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...having the best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the university and every afternoon, except Saturday, a squab practices kicking. Anyone wishing to try, even if he has never done any kicking before, can obtain instruction and practice at that time by applying to the captain of the eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenge Cup for Kicking. | 3/25/1889 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon Professor Lyon lectured on the decipherment of the Babylonian books. He said that had Babylonian writings not been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babylonian Books. | 3/23/1889 | See Source »

...committee submitted to Rawlinson, Hinch, and Fox Talbot copies of a long passage of writting from one of the old Assyrian kings. Independent translations were to be made and returned in sealed packages to the committee. These translations showed such a large amount of agreement that there has never since been reason to doubt the general accuracy of the reading of Babylonian-Assyrian books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babylonian Books. | 3/23/1889 | See Source »

...best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the University and every afternoon, except Saturday, a squad practices kicking. Any one wishing to try, even if he has never done any kicking before, can obtain instruction and practice at that time by applying to the captain of the eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenge Cup for Kicking. | 3/23/1889 | See Source »

...during the evening. Mr. Francis O. French, '55, read some impromptu verses in commemoration of this event. The verses were greeted with a great deal of applause, and were followed by the drinking of Mr. Lowell's health to the enthusiastic accompaniment of the Harvard cheer. The verses have never before appeared in print, but feeling that every Harvard man will be interested in them, we take this occasion to publish them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New York Harvard Club. | 3/19/1889 | See Source »

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