Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yesterday afternoon Professor Lyon lectured on the decipherment of the Babylonian books. He said that had Babylonian writings not been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula...
...Yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of the 'Varsity Club, the following men were elected as undergraduate members of the auditing committee: P. D. Trafford, '89, J. Hutchinson, '90, M. Williams, and J. F. Bass...
...yesterday's issue we published a lengthy communication advocating the formation of an amateur photographic society amongst the students at Harvard. The writer states that a few years ago such a club was in existence, and that it was in a flourishing condition, but that of late, for reasons unexplained, it has entirely disappeared. All that we can say in this matter is that it is to be regretted that the spirit of indifference, formerly so characteristic of everything pertaining to Harvard, should still linger in a few cases, and that a society which has proven itself so useful...
...special meeting of the corporation of Brown University was held yesterday in Providence, to take action on the resignation of President Robinson. The following is the letter of resignation...
...regular weekly vesper service was held in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The choir opened the service with Ford's anthem, "Exandivit Dominus." Dr. G. A. Gordon led in the responsive service, after which the choir sang the anthem, "I will sing of thy power" by Sullivan...