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...poem to be read is the oldest existing epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto. The tablets are covered on both sides, and each side is divided into three columns...
...Harvard Boat Club has not yet received the communication from Yale which was telegraphed to the Sunday papers two days ago, and much surprise is expressed at Yale's method of publishing her corrospondence before it is transmitted. - [Transcript...
...more to be commended when we consider the difficulty of singing well so early in the morning and in such a vicious temperature as that which always pervades Appleton Chapel. A great part of the increase in popularity of the present chapel services over those of two years ago is due to the efforts of the choir under the efficient leadership of Mr. Locke. The improvement has been noticeable and must be highly satisfactory to the choir itself as well as to the entire college...
HARVARD.Mr. J. S. Clark, of Harvard University said : "I am very willing to do anything I can to bring college cricket before the public, but my knowledge is confined to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. At Harvard some years ago some energetic cricketers collected subscriptions enough to lay out a little piece of turf, some twenty or thirty yards, in a part of Holmes field, and this is our ground at the present moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems...
...woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons ago...