Word: sun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell crew is pulling eight miles a day. Thayer, '90, has been unamiously chosen captain. The Sun says that the men have the greatest confidence in him, and that he is just the man for the place...
...Salisbury tablets are all or nearly all from Sippar, the most famous Babylonian seat of the worship of the sun god. Those tablets whose dates are presented are from the reigns of Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Nergalsharezer and Nabonidas. All the others perhaps belong to the ame period. Among the subjects treated are records of the loan of money, tithes and taxes, and offerings to the gods. The great Sippar temple seems to have carried on a large system of lending. One of the tablets exhibited still has the finger prints of the writer. One was a list of families, perhaps slave...
...time discoveries were being made also in the southern part of Babylonia. Huge mounds were being dug out in which were buried palaces, temples and ruined cities. After this time until 1872 there was very little discovery. At that date, George Smith, an Englishman, discovered the temple of the sun-god, and in it was found immense numbers of the so-called Babylonian books...
...opening anthem by the choir was Atwood's "Enter not into judgment," "The sun shall be no more thy light by day," by Woodward, "Nunc Dimittis," by H. O. Whiney, were also sung...
...unusually large number attended the vesper service yesterday afternoon. The choir opened the service with Calkin's anthem, "Rejoice in the Lord." Rev. G. A. Gordon conducted the responsive service, after which the anthem, "The sun shall be no more they light by day," by Woodward, was sung...