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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.- Harry Lacey in "The Still Alarm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 11/23/1888 | See Source »

...Williams and Technology, the two teams in the league which were considered her strongest rivals, and it is thought the pennant is almost won. The Tech. men were very confident of winning, but a score of 30-0 against them changed their opinion of our football prowess. Williams was still more confident, but fared scarcely better, being beaten by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Notes. | 11/23/1888 | See Source »

...debate was then opened for the negative by W. D. Clark, '89. He said in brief: The present institution has stood the test of time, and is still sustained by the reason which led to its formation. It does a great deal to obviate the danger of ties and of contested elections. The power of small states depends entirely upon the continuance of the present system, for under the system now being discussed, New York city would have more power than the four smallest states in the Union. Also under a change of system there would be a much greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate last Evening. | 11/23/1888 | See Source »

...accompanied by two other Assyrian scholars, as well as by a photographer, etc. Nothing but well-known obstacles presented by the Turkish of ficials seem to stand in the way of success. Babylonia is covered with large artificial mounds marking the ruins of palaces, temples and cities, still burying libraries and sculptures of priceless value. Few of these have yet been touched by the spade of the European...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors Among the American Orientalists. | 11/22/1888 | See Source »

...Babylonian libraries of Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, two of the most interesting rulers in the history of the world, are yet to be unearthed. They are, doubtless, still lying beneath the colossal ruins of Babylon. The wonderful discoveries made at Tello by M. de Sarzee, ten years ago, illustrate what may be expected from excavation at new points, and the large number of cuneiform tablets unearthed last winter in Egypt give us a new sense of the prominence of the Assyrian language for international communication in very early times. The natives of Babylonia are always digging at various points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professors Among the American Orientalists. | 11/22/1888 | See Source »

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