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...specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited have arrived from London since his last lecture, and they are especially rare as showing the nature and customs of a prehistoric people. Rev. Dr. Ward of America and M. Mamont, have done much to collect seals and vases which contain the various modes of expression adopted by the early Babylonians, and a greater part of what we now have, especially in the form of seals, is due to their efforts. Among the interesting speciments of the collection was one which had belonged to King Nebuchadnezzar. It was a book formed from stone into...
...Collegian" for March which has just appeared, contains the usual literary matter and a special series of letters from the editors of various college publications on "Chapel Attendance; Compulsory or voluntary." The letter from Harvard is signed "CRIMSON." There is also an article on Harvard by R. L. Weeks. The summary of athletic events is excellent...
...Greek drama always preserved the unities. This part of the lecture, which treated of the drama, the manner of preserving it, and the equipments of the theatre, was especially interesting. In closing, various views of the masks used in the Greek theatre were shown in anticipation of the next lecture, which will treat of the costuming, among other subjects...
...Another Parable" is one of the best articles. It contains some hints to which we heartily recommend the attention of the "Seventeen Sacred Asses." "Some Specimens of the Fauna Harvariana" is written in a veiw new to the Advocate. It is full of satire upon the various types of Harvard students...
Attention was directed to various works on Babylonian-Assyrian topics, as The Records of the Past, (new ed.), the histories of George Smith, Modern Ragosin, C. P. Tiele, Schrader's Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Old Testament, The Hibbert Lectures for 1887 (Sayce), George Smith's Chaldean account of Genesis, Kellner's translation of the story of the deluge, Zimmer's Babylonische Busspsalmea and Perrot and Chipier on Ancient...