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LECTURE ON BABYLONIA.Under the auspices of the Semitic Conference, Professor J. P. Peters will give on the evening of Oct. 18, in the Jefferson Physical Labratory. an account of his recent important excavations in the ruins of Niffer, one of the oldest centres of Babylonian culture. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views...
Probably the oldest known specimens of recorded language in the world are the inscriptions on the door sockets and brick stamps found at Niffer by the Babylonian exploration expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, which has recently recently...
...oldest and largest medical school in America, is that of the University of Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1765, and has graduated...
...oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College, Rev. Dr. Frederick A. Farley, of the class of 1818, died at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday. He was in his 92d year, having been born in Boston on June...
...death of Dr. Farley leaves as the oldest surviving graduate of the college, Rev. William H. Furness, of Philadelphia, a member of the class...