Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sporting publications are seasonable and interesting, while the illustrations are up to the usual high standard. The contents are as follows: "A Friend in Need," by Caroline Shelley; "The Bicycle in Athens," by T. G. Allen, Jr.; "Trouting on the North Shore," by W. O. Henderson; "Wheeling thro' Western England," by Alice L. Moque; "A Fin de Cycle Incident," by Edna C. Jackson; "Yale at Henley," by W. B. Curtis; "Wheeling Through Virginia," by J. B. Carrington; "Len's World Tour Awheel"; "Military Cycling Thro' the Dakotas," by Lieutenant R. C. Cabell; "America's Turf-Transition," by Francis Trevelyan; "Getting...
...first athletic contest between Harvard and the University of Chicago-the baseball game on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon-was an easy victory for Harvard. The Western players showed the fatigue of their trip and did not play with any snap...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...Semites are a well-defined group of peoples inhabiting Western Asia, with a history extending from the remotest past to the present day. They have done an important work in civilization, giving to the world the alphabet, monotheism, the Bible, the Koran, and the three religious-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are therefore of permanent interest to students of language, literature, history, religion, and art. The four informal lectures announced for this week and the next are intended to give a general view of the language and the literature, especially the latter, of four of the chief members...
...South-Western Teachers' Burean of Topeka, Kansas, desires to correspond with graduate students and others of successful teaching experience. It has many calls to recommend such in paying positions in the West...