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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library of the Annex has received some two hundred volumes of French and German books, during the past week, from an unknown giver. Many of the books are by standard authors, and most of them are complete sets of value...
Rutgers College has recently received $25,000 from an unknown patron...
...Alexander Agassiz, representing an unknown person has recently purchased more than 70,000 square feet of land fronting on Charles river, near Putnam avenue. It is the intention of the purchaser to present this land to Harvard College for the use of the Harvard Rowing Club. The land is situated in a direct line from the college ground, and owing to the absence of strong tides at this point is better adapted to the use of the club than its present situation...
...signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script read at first downwards...
...religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling. The attitude towards religion...