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Last evening Prof. Frothingham delivered the third of the series of lectures on Assyrian Archaeology. The beginning of Babylonian art can be traced to the earliest historical period of Babylon, about 4000 B. C. From that period on we possess inscriptions for nearly every century from colossal temples and statues...
Until 1786 the students at both Yale and Harvard were ranked entirely according to social standing. Such rank-lists of the classes were posted in the buttery at the beginning of the freshman year and were waited for expectantly. Yale was the first to abolish this vicious system of ranking...
"We have every reason to claim for ourselves a place in the front rank of American universities, and yet this claim is seldom made. The press teems with the well-grounded self-congratulations of Harvard and Yale. Princeton is, in name, about to become a university, while we at Pennsylvania...
We are sorry to announce the weakening of our present board by the temporary retirement of Mr. Hamilton, and by Mr. Hervey's resignation. As the conduct of the CRIMSON is soon to be in the hands of the '88 editors, we hope to have soon as strong a possible...
(2) The first discoveries in Persian Cuneiform, at the beginning of the century, by Grotefend, Lessen, Rawlinson and others, and the gradual decipherment of the second and third columns of the trilingual inscription of Behistun - the Median and Assyrian.