Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS.- Since at present the officers of this college are agitating the question of reform, I have thought that this communication may not be out of place. I wish to point out what seems to be a defect in oral examinations in this college. That examinations of this kind are here very rare must be admitted, but even so all cause for complaint either on the part of the professor or the student should be avoided so far as it is possible...
...HUBBARD, sec.O. K. Photographs today at 1.45 p. m. Every man should be present if he wishes to be in the picture...
HERBERT H. DARLING, Sec.The 'Varsity Glee Club will sing at the Boston Art Club, March 23. All members unable then to be present will please notify me at once...
...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 been taken...
...first American expedition was formed and it succeeded in unearthing some of the rarest of all the specimens of tablet-writing, and of the half-human half-beast figures of which there were found many in the excavations. At present a body of American gentlemen, of which Prof. Peters of the University of Pennsylvania is the head, is engaged in discoveries in Babylonia...