Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor D. G. Lyon, Curator of the Semitic Museum, will give the second of his series of five illustrated lectures on Egypt and Palestine this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject will be "The Temples and Rock-hewn Tombs of Thebes...
...Lecture. Egypt and Palestine. II. The Temples and Rock-hewn Tombs of Thebes, (Illustrated.) Professor Lyon. Fogg Lecture Room...
There will be no soloist at this afternoon's Vesper Service, the musical programme being given by the University Choir. The programme is as follows: "Ring out, Wild Bells, Hall; "The Lord is my Rock," Woodman; "The Heavenly Song," Gray...
...stereopticon views that the great truth revealed by a study of this canon is the vast amount of time during which the earth has been undergoing processes of formation and transformation. Professor Davis first stated that the canon as it exists today has been carved out of solid rock by the erosion of water and the elements. He then proved that not only has this work been going on for ages past but also that incomparably longer there have been at work a wonderful succession of agencies building up and tearing down the very rock out of which the canon...
...caused by a light deposit of hoar frost. The observations bore him out, showing by the most accurate kind of micrometic measurements that the spot had increased during the time the moon was obscured. That the spot is a deposit of hoar frost and not light reflected from rock is shown by the fact of its enlargement and increase of light. If the spot were stone virtually no light would have been reflected when the earth's shadow fell upon the moon...