Word: signs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sign on the bulletin board for the reserved courts under the following conditions: (a) Any member of the University may apply for one of the reserved courts, which is not already engaged; but he can not apply for it till the day on which he wishes to play. (b) Members of the League and the other gentlemen mentioned above, may sign on Saturdays for any day and hour of the ensuing week, which has not been previously applied for. (c) Members of the League may sign at any time for regular and postponed matches to be played...
...cuneiform script was employed by several nations in western Asia, including the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Persians. It was at first a picture writing, like the Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest...
Although the Babylonian inscriptions from Persepolis were translations of the deciphered old Persian, yet the difficulty of the Babylonian script stood in the way of reading the Babyilouian characters. A given sign did not always represent the same sound nor the same idea. One could read the shorter Babylonian inscriptions without knowing how to pronounce a single sign. By degrees it was seen that the various signs were syllables and not letters. From this discovery the work went rapidly forward. In 1857 so much had been written on the subject that the Royal Asiatic Society of London appointed a committee...
...take this last opportunity of urging all active members of the Harvard undergraduate papers to sign immediately for the Press dinner, to be held tomorrow night. This is the first time that all the Harvard papers have been united at such an event, and as the main object is to establish a manly spirit of co-operation and friendliness between the various papers it is hoped that all who can possibly attend the dinner will be present. Some organization of the papers will perhaps result from this dinner, and a happy precedent will undoubtedly be established. Tonight the blue book...
...BALCH, Sec.EDITORIAL DINNER.- The book for signatures for the dinner tomorrow evening will be taken away from Leavitt's tonight at nine o'clock. All the men must sign today...