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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...built with alternate courses of red and white stone and have domes which contain the tombs. There are no seats in them and the worshipper is obliged to take off his shoes upon entering. The minaret is invariably a feature of a mosque, and is a tall tower from whose gallery the priest summons to prayer. The chief mode of conveyance is the donkey, and the city is full of these strong little beasts, posted at every corner in charge of boys. The population of the city is about 400,000, and the native part is made up of Moslems...
...account of the nine is, at this season of the year, necessarily incomplete. We hope to publish a more complete account later. Harkins, of the Holy Cross College team, about whose playing much has been said, is not in college...
...rather too much so, for it gave Ellis a fine chance. Ellis was decidedly the fresher at the end of the third round and was awarded the feather-weight. A little surprise was now in store for the spectators. A bout was announced between Bangs and Bowen, Harvard '88, whose name did not appear on the program. This was the closest contest of all. Bowen took the aggressive. At the middle of the second round he seemed to be having the best of it, when Bangs rushed him. Bowen seemed dazed for a moment, while Bangs scored well...
...background were introduced. The abduction of Helen by Paris was a fruitful theme which gave rise to several beautiful representations. Pictures of some of the masterpieces of Greek vase-painting were shown, and the ludicrous figures of the archaic vases were most amusingly commented upon by the lecturer, whose remarks called forth hearty applause...
...American Society for Psychical Research, whose secretary, Mr. Richard Hodgson, is to lecture next Monday evening for the benefit of the University Crew, is a society in which the college should be interested because so many of the professors are leading members, and because it has been proved that a study of the laws of mental action is one that can be carried on to advantage. Among the leading movers in the society the names of Dr. Bowditch, of the Harvard Medical School, Professor Pickering, of the Observatory, Professors Royce and James and Mr. S. N. Scudder, are well-known...