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...examination paper in English A yesterday contained an editorial taken from a recent CRIMSON. It was given as a specimen of good English...
...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has just received a fine specimen of the rare monuments of the Hyksos Kings of Egypt, under the last of whom Joseph was prime minister. It is a headless sphinx of black granite and bears the rare monumental name of Setnekht, the last monarch of the dynasty of Rameses...
...Only one specimen of the hand writing of John Harvard has been known to be in existence, and is his signature to a document deposited in the Registry of the English University of Cambridge. Another document containing his signature and that of his brother Thomas has just been brought to light. Of this a correspondent of the Athenaeum writes...
...CRIMSON is in receipt of the prospectus and a specimen selection of Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia. This work is in process of preparation, one volume having already been published. There will be thirty or more volumes of this work, each volume containing about six hundred and fifty pages. The work will be profusely illustrated, and its articles will be written by well known authors. It will be more than a "Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge," as it will embody a complete dictionary of the English language. It will give more than mere definitions of words, as it will offer general knowledge...
...horned rhinoceros, the gift of the Hon. P. T. Barnum, has been received at the Barnum Museum, Tufts College. This is the only specimen of the kind in any college museum...