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Yesterday afternoon the senior crew were out on the river for more than an hour, with Fennessy coaching. The crew went up the river to get out of the wind, and spent the time practicing a sharp recover and slowing down the slides. Shepard, who usually rows at six, did not row yesterday, as he was ill. Fox took his place...
Professor Lyon gave the third of his Assyrian readings yesterday afternoon on "The Broken Wing of the South Wind," the subject of an inscription on a cuneiform tablet, now in Berlin, taken from the library of Amenophis IV of Egypt...
Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the South-Wind's wing, and had to answer for his deed before Anu, the god of the heavens. This tablet will be the subject of Professor Lyon's reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...
Assyrian Readings. III. The Broken Wing of the South Wind. Professor Lyon. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Friday.Assyrian Readings. III. The Broken Wing of the South Wind. Professor Lyon. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...