Word: stones
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...study of meteorites is only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount. There is a meteoric stone in the British Museum which fell in Japan 150 years ago, and which has since been preserved in a temple as a relic...
...Mexico. Through the generosity of Mr. Stephen Salisbury the museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts of the building will be taken from moulds made by Mr. Edward Thompson. The casts are valuable as showing the strange workmanship in the old stone carvings of the palace. A collection of human skulls found near Zuni has been presented by Mrs. Hemenway; this collection will be of great assistance in comparative study...
...Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...
...gate, as has been already announced, is the gift of Mr. George v. L. Meyer, of the class of '79, and will be placed between Holworthy and Thayer. Like the gate between Massachusetts and Harvard, it will have a granite underpinning, and will be built of brick and free stone. It is intended, while preserving the general character of the North Avenue gate, to make the gate in every respect subordinate, its principal posts representing in scale the dimensions of the smaller posts of the North Avenue gate. Seen from the Delta it will present a recessed entrance, about forty...
...should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because we feel sure of a victory before the teams have met. It means that we should go to work and stay at work and not leave a stone unturned up to the moment of the contest. Theories are at best merely in the air; it is hard work which is the whole matter. Graduates have said this and undergraduates have felt it, but until lately the inertness of men has made it impossible for a coach to accomplish what...