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...denying what it always has formerly understood to be international law, (a) It has acknowledged that Behring Sea is open. J. Q. Adam's letter to the Russian Minister, Mar. 30, 1822: Lawrence's W. Lestor, pp. 307, 314. (b) It has denied the right of territorial jurisdiction over similar bodies of water in Europe. Holbeck I., ch. vi., SS17 and 19. (c) It is denying today that in the Northeastern fisheries there can be any territorial jurisdiction over the seas except only as to those portions capable of permanent possession from the shore: C. B. Elliott...
...interscholastic race a silver cup will be presented, to be competed for annually by the schools, at the H. U. C. A. meet, under rules similar to those which govern the Mott Haven games...
...lecture yesterday Prof. Lyon showed the close relationship between the first eleven chapters in Genesis and similar narratives in the Babylonian-Assyrian literature. In some cases, as the Deluge, the cuneiform account is almost completely recovered; in others. owing to the terrible fate that befell Assyrian libraries, only small fragments have yet been found. The use to which the Hebrews put this material constitutes the great superiority in the Hebrew versions. The writer of Genesis replaced polytheism by monotheism. Some things he left out, and retained only echoes of other portions. Thus, we find in Genesis a serpent which...
...years ago there wers found in Egypt some wonderful letters written about too B. C., in the Cuneiform script. The Old Testament aids us largely. It is a series of old letters written at about the time of the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization. If certain persons had not found similar letters in the Persian language, it is probable it might never have been clear. Even then we might never have known the sequence of historical events in the Jewish nation if the Persian kings had not written their records in parallel columns, one in the Persian and the other...
...report was passed. The committee demands one game of football at New York, the barring of special students from the teams and a deciding game of baseball on neutral grounds in case of a tie. A motion that the committee confer with Princeton with a view to making similar arrangements brought out the strong feeling of Yale regarding discrimination against Princeton, but was finally laid on the table because it was thought best to finish the business in hand first. The committee was instructed to continue their conference with Harvard...