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...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...
...organization and plans of the American Institute of Archaeology, of which Prof. Norton is president, are known to most Harvard men. Besides its valuable and noted excavations at Assos last year, it has been carrying on excavations in Mexico also - at Cholula, into the great pyramid there, and at Mitla. Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell, Brown, the College of the City of New York and Amherst have already signified their intention of cooperating in the proposed school at Athens; and it is expected that Columbia and Princeton will soon join the enterprise. If the school is established, as there...
March 29. Professor J. D. Whitney, "The Great Pyramid." Illustrated by diagrams...
...innovated halls of Nature, we are now prepared to partake of the joys so lavishly diffused within the trackless paths of solitude. The secret dell unfolds the parchment of silent admiration, the lonely dale mourns reverie to the ear of the passer-by, the rugged brink crowns the pyramid of sublimity, and the babbling brook murmurs a tender welcome to the musings of genius. The place of toil is deserted. No longer the busy bell chimes our summons, but with full hearts and nature's silent language, we will extinguish the illusive expression of felicity, and nourish the little spark...
...Dartmouth has settled some disputed points in chronology. It decides that the Great Pyramid was built just "253 years after the Flood, and 150 before the Tower of Babel." This period was 3,971 years ago, and "it is but 3,367 years since Moses lived," so that the Pyramid was just 604 years old when the Israelites left Egypt...