Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bonrinot, clerk of the Canadian House of Commons and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, will lecture this evening on the Relation between Canada and the United States. Mr. Bourinot is an eminent authority on Canadian constitutional questions and his paper read before the Historical Society last week showed great familiarity with his subject. The same paper has since been read at Johns Hopkins University. The lecture tonight will touch on extradition, the fishery treaty and other questions of present interest...
...most interesting lectures delivered in Cambridge this year was that given last night under the auspices of the Natural History society of Harvard, by Professor Carl Lumholtz, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of Christiana. Although but a short notice of the lecture could be given, the large lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory was completely filled by an audience which followed with the greatest interest the fascinating recital of the remarkable experiences of Professor Lumholtz among the cannibal aborigines of Australia. The lecture was unusually long, but the attention of the audience was held throughout. The interest...
During the last century France has had to expiate her crime of allowing so many centuries of evil government. But now at last she is free. It is not a prince of the royal blood, but a man made famous by the movement for liberty, who is now the ruler of the country. The nation has finally reached the goal toward which it has been struggling, and is only the more fixed there for her agonies. Social as well as political lessons have been taught by the Revolution. The government now recognizes the necessity of education for the masses...
...Sever Hall on the same plan as the French library which has proved of great service to students in that department. We are heartily glad that Mr. Villard has come forward and given such material aid to the scheme. After the subscriptions have been started in such a royal way the rest of the money needed ought not to be long in coming. We urge all interested in the matter to subscribe as much as possible...
...many libraries at Larsa, Cuthra, Sippar, Calah and Nineveh. From the last named, the youngest of all (668-626 B. C.) many of the most valuable books have come. The writings may be classed as historical, imaginative, religious, scientific and social. The historical records, giving the accounts of the royal wars, limits and erection of cities, palaces and temples, are written on rock mountain sides, on stone statues, monuments, and slabs, but especially on clay books in the shape of prisms, cylinders and tablets. Besides such documents there are others of the nature of historical compilations, while still others...