Word: poems
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Professor Lyon gave the fourth of his series of Assyrian Readings, in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon. The subject of the reading was a mythological poem from the library of Saradanapalus of Assyria, describing a combat between the god Marduk and Tiamat, a dragon. The poem is written on six tablets, parts of which were brought to light in the British Museum in 1875 by George Smith...
...poem is somewhat cosmical in character, and probably dates from extreme antiquity. In several parts it suggests the Book of Genesis. It is, so far as known, the most remarkable product of Babylonian imagination...
...Williams '85 will preside at the dinner tomorrow evening and the following men will reply to toasts: A. N. Broughton '93, M. Ladd '94, W. B. Wolffe '95, E. V. Frothingham '96, F. A. Burlingame '97, J. Dean '97, C. Grilk '98 and R. H. Carleton '98. The poem will be read by H. G. Gray...
...account of the Hasty Pudding Club's Centennial, which is the most interesting article of the number from the undergraduate's point of view, contains the "Historical Sketch," by Lloyd McKim Garrison '88; Poem, by John T. Wheelwright '76; The Pudding Song, which tells how the club was formed by a Puritan and a "Choctaw Indian"; Speech, by the Hon. Joseph H. Choate '52; and Ode, by Benjamin A. Gould...
...July (poem), Margaret Deland...