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...last Wednesday a university indignation meeting was held to adopt resolutions denouncing the act of pulling over the Silliman statue...
...ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented the alphabet and thus placed the whole world under obligation for all coming time...
THERE will be a meeting of the Exeter men in college to adopt a Constitution for the Harvard-Exeter Club in Sever 5, Thursday evening, February 28th, 1889, at 7.30 o'clock...
...BULLARD.THERE will be a meeting of the Exeter men in college to adopt a Constitution for the Harvard-Exeter Club in Sever 5, Thursday evening, February 28th, 1889, at 7.30 o'clock...
...second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries to account for the origin of the Universe by the laws of science; it is, in short, the "Nebular Hypothesis." The lecturer said that the modern theory was the one which he should adopt in his lecture...