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Babylonia. The joint expedition of Oxford University and the Field Museum, Chicago, under Prof. S. Langdon, has uncovered the ruins of Kish, an early capital of the Accadian kings, eight miles east of the site of Babylon, including the great tower of the temple to the war god Ilbaba, built about...
...place of having the dinner before the game as was formerly the custom, this year, for various reasons, the time has been changed so that now arrangements have been made to hold the dinner after the contest in the Tower Room in Memorial Hall. Although the speakers for the occasion have not as yet been definitely selected, it is hoped to secure several men of prominence to address the two societies...
...their grades as furnished by the Administrative Board of the School, are: Albert Palmer 5E.S., G. G. Tunell Jr. 1G., M. S. Bromwell 4E.S., L. B. Curtis 4E.S., Lawrence Litchfield Jr. 4E.S., W. J. Mean 4E.S., E. P. Nelson 4E.S., J. G. Peter 4E.S., Morris Stone 4E.S., G. W. Tower 4E.S., Charles Weller 4E.S., E. F. Porter 3E.S., W. G. Thomas 3E.S., and W. T. Wintringham 3E.S...
Again a serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...
About half of Geddes' active life has been spent at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he founded a famous summer school of civics, built the " Outlook Tower," a laboratory in practical sociology, instituted a social survey of Edinburgh years before the first American survey, collected one of the most complete zoological gardens in the world, and laid the foundation for the city-planning movement which culminated in the London conference of 1910 and the Ghent exposition...