Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mohamedan college at Cairo, Egypt, is the oldest in the world. It was founded eight hundred years before Oxford...
...they treat of the verbs of saying in Plato, of open questions in English philology, of the separation of copper from arsenic by means of electricity, etc. Under the head of "Miscellaneous." articles of various kinds are to be found, notably the announcement of a series of lectures on Egypt to be delivered in Cambridge, Boston, New York and other cities by Miss A. B. Edwards, of London. The lectures will be on ancient as well as modern Egypt, and will treat of the discoveries made of recent years by the Egypt Exploration Fund...
...thus far was to make drawings of these works of art and this was permitted only on the receipt of five guineas from each artist daily. In 1801 Abercrombie defeated the French and the fate of the Parthenon no longer rested on the result of the campaign in Egypt. At this time, De Hunt, chaplain of the British embassy to Constantinople, conceived the idea of moving the marbles themselves to London and finally in 1801, after some reluctance, gained permission from the governor...
...President White of Cornell, who is at present traveling in Egypt recently sent a valuable collection of antiquities to Cornell...
Marshall Field, Jr., '91, is traveling in Egypt. He is at present on a trip up the Nile...