Word: smith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Carpenter, '83; Terry, '84; McKee, '84; Stone, '85; Richards, '85; Griggs, '83. Waldon, '81, has come back and will occupy his old position as second base. Wilcox, the luckiest man in the college base-ball arena last year, has left college. The nine also loses the services of Smith, Badger, Hopkins and Platt. Hopkins' place will be hard to fill, but the vacancy at second base will be more than filled by the return of Waldon. The base-ball quarters at the gymnasium have been greatly enlarged and improved. The candidates began training January...
...following named men will probably spar at the winter meetings: Feather weight, Heilbron, '83, and Baker, '84. Light weight, O. G. Smith, '83, and E. K. Butler, '83. Middle weight, W. H. Page and Richmond, '83, and R. D. Smith, '86. Heavy weight, Baxter, '83, and Appleton, '84. Mr. Guiteras will probably not spar...
...read is the oldest existing epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns of forty lines...
...also preserved in other tablets. It is a curious fact that parts of several editions of the poem have been found which lead to the belief that there were at one time many editions. The only place where the poem can be found is in Sayce's edition of Smith's "Chaldaean Genesis," which contains about one-third of the poem...
...Robertson Smith, the well known biblical scholar, has accepted the position of professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, made vacant by the death of Professor Palmer...