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Professor Lyon studied the Assyrian languages and history for three years at Leipzig with Professor Friedrich Delitzsch, the most eminent authority on the subject. In 1882 he was called here to fill a professorship, and has been teaching and studying Assyrian even since...
There has been placed on exhibit in the Assyrian room of the Semitic Museum a plaster cast of the stone, on which is written the Code of Laws of Hammurabi, king of Babylonia about 2250 B.C. There are 44 columns of writing containing 247 laws which give evidence of an advanced civilization among the Babylontans 1000 years before the time of Moses...
...year. These comprise: Medieval French architecture (including three photographs given by Professor Norton); Etruscan sculpture, Ancient Greek architecture and sculpture, Excavations in Crete, Flemish, Dutch, German, English, and Spanish painting. To the collection of slides there were 185 additions, comprising Medieval Italian and French architecture, Renaissance Italian architecture, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, and Roman architecture and sculpture, Ancient painting, Excavations in Crete, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, and German painting. Three slides were given by Professor J. H. Wright...
...establish three new courses: Semitic 3b, an advanced course in Classical Aramic, two hours a week, to be conducted by Mr. H. H. Haynes '73; Engineering 20d, Reinforced Concrete, a course of research, primarily for Graduate students, to be conducted by Assistant Professor L. J. Johnson '87; Semitic 4, Assyrian, to be given four times a week during the second half-year...
...report enumerates important acquisitions of the year, among which have been an original Assyrian inscription from King Assurnazirkal (9th century B. C.) on an elaborate slab about three feet square, and three models made at Jerusalem by Dr. Schick, a German archaeologist, who lived and studied in that city for fifty years. The model of chief value is one of Haramesh-Sherif, nine feet by eleven, and is an exact representation of the mosques and other buildings occupying the site of Solomon's Temple and Palace. The second model, of the same size, is a restoration of the Temple...