Word: originally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record made by the Princeton lacrosse team this year is better than that of any year since the origin of the twelve. Lacrosse is a game which at Princeton receives less support than either football or baseball, and on this account the team, and especially the captain, deserve great praise for their success in winning the championship Five games have been played this season, four of which have been won. The game with the Druids of Baltimore was the only one which Princeton lost, the score being two to one in favor of the Druids. The latter team is considered...
...Atlantic Monthly for June are from the pen of Harvard professors. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes a charming sketch entitled "Rawdon Brown and the Gravestone of 'Banished Norfolk,' " in which he describes Mr. Brown's antiquarian works in Venice. Professor C. H. Toy has an article on the origin and history of "The Thousand and One Nights." The mixed Indian and Persian and Arabian character of the stories is traced. Professor Royce publishes his second paper of "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Australasia" which is fully as thoughtful and interesting as the first. The rest of the number...
...Harvard athletes are surprised that anything ever has been said about the matter at all, and doubly surprised that the affair should have been so misrepresented, especially after Shearman had actually used Leavitt's pole. There is a disposition to regard the whole thing as having its origin in the oriental imagination of some New York reporter...
...Zoological Club will meet at the Museum this evening. Doors open: 7.15-7.30. Short papers on Eyes in Cave Crustacea; (2) Origin of Limb-buds in fishes and birds; (3) Assexual Reproduction in Turbellarians...
...development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script...