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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good-sized audience was in attendance at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Lyon's first lecture upon "Babylonian Books." The first part of the lecture was taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have...
Much enthusiasm was shown on the part of the spectators, both graduates and undergraduates and we hope that the interest will be kept up in the next two meetings...
DEAR SIRS:- As the outcome of much talk this winter about charity work by college men, it is proposed to unite in a single organization all members of the University who are now engaged in any form of philanthropic work, or who are studying any part of the social question, or who are willing to be counted as allies in such service. I wish, therefore, to invite all students who are in any degree moved to this kind of interest, to meet informally at my house on Wednesday evening next, March 20, at 7.30 P. M. We shall then talk...
Some members of the Yale faculty have taken a prominent part in a project which has been recently brought forward for the purpose of extending the advantages of a college education to some who have not heretofore been able to enjoy them. President Dwight has been elected president of the committee, and many of the professors have signified their willingness to assist in the undertaking. The scheme is much similar to that adopted in English Universities. Bodies of students will meet together and study certain subjects, and the professors will deliver lectures at intervals. Examinations will be held and diplomas...
Professor Hart has been threatened with pneumonia, and will probably be unable to continue his lectures until the latter part of next week...