Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been published under the authority of the British Museum from a papyrus which has recently come into the possession of the Museum through some Egyptian excavations. In general the manuscript is in good condition, though the last of the four rolls of which it consists is fragmentary. The writing, as is usual in such cases, is on the reverse of the papyrus, which originally held certain mercantile accounts dated 79 A. D. Allowing, therefore, reasonable time for these accounts to lose their importance before the other side would be used, we may fix the date of this text...
Princeton College has received a gift of over 30,000 pieces of pottery and porcelain, illustrating the history and progress of art from the earliest Egyptian period down to the present time...
...articles as were collected by her son during his lifetime. It is to be constructed of cut stone, and in imitation of the museum at Athens, the plans and drawings of which have been forwarded by the Government of Greece, under the authority of Brusha Bey, President of the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. The substantial buildings of the university are almost complete, while the dormitories. each of which is intended to accommodate four hundred pupils, will be ready for occupation the early part of next fall. The cost of maintenance of pupils will be fixed at not less than...
...fill the first floor of the new art building. The collection will be in the same general line of work as the Boston Art Museum and the Slater Memorial of Norwich, differing from these collections in making all three collections co-operative in the advance of Romanesque, Gothic, Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture. The class of '81 in making this gift is keeping up with the old custom that each class ten years after graduation place some memorial stone or building on the campus as a monument of the generosity of the class...
...Phillips Brooks preached an eloquent sermon last evening from Exodus 14; 30. "And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things...