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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...search will also be made for the intra-Mecurial planet, about whose existence astronomers are very much in doubt...
Several of the specimens were sent to Professor Frederick W. Putnam, curator of the Peabody Museum of Archeology, and during the summer he made observations and formed plans to make a regular search this fall. The work was begun a few days ago and Thursday one skeleton was found, in the back-bone of which an arrow head was imbedded two third of an inch. Friday another was discovered and Saturday six were unearthed, of which five were in one group. The five were apparently a warrior, his squaw and three papooses. Near by there was found a portion...
Today and tomorrow will occur the annual rush of students from Cambridge to pass Thanksgiving day in some spot more congenial than the precincts of the University. We wish to repeat to all who leave Cambridge, whether they go to feast with their families or to search for a foot-ball game, the warning that has come from official sources; namely, that although the students have never been strictly limited to a holiday of twenty-four hours only at this season of the year, the practice of extending the vacation to several days must not be carried...
...expedition which was sent out by the University of Pennsylvania to enter upon a systematic search for the sites of the cities of Babylon and Ninevah, of which Dr. Harper of Yale was a member, has been wrecked in the AEgean Sea, near the Isle of Samos. An authentic account of the disaster and of the rescue of the expedition by a Turkish brigantine has been received by Professor James of the U. of P. The accident, however, will not prevent the expedition from continuing its investigation. The party is made up of John P. Peters, Director...
...changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their classes. He certainly lost sight of the possibilities of that devotion to an ideal which must be present...