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Tiamat, mother of all gods, represented as a dragon, is the primaeval chaos. She plans to overthrow the gods, her children, gathers an army of monsters, and puts Kingu, her son and only faithful child, in command. Both Anu, the god of the heavens, and Ea, the god of the waters under the earth, are turned back in fright before this army. These events occupy the first two tablets. The third tablet tells how Marduk, son of Ea, offers to oppose Tiamat, if the gods in reward will make him ruler over them. In the fourth tablet Marduk defeats Kingu...
Thompson Sp., '98, is a new man. Last year he was the regular pitcher on the Yale freshman nine and a substitute on the 'varsity. He has an excellent build and pitches with good speed and command...
...buildings upon the new site and to the laying of the corner stone of the library, the first building to be erected. Circumstances have jutified the belief that the re-establishment of the college upon a scale commensurate with the extent and importance of its educational work would unfailingly command the confidence and support of the alumni and of the public...
...number of graduates, including some of the wisest and best of Harvard's sons, who are ready and anxious, if the University Club project commends itself to maturer deliberation as it has done to first, and indeed to second thought, to support it with all the energy at their command. Is it not the only natural response which we, for whose good they are working, can make, to give them our united sympathy and support from now on? A critical, conservative attitude is the only safe one to maintain during the early stages of such an important enterprise as this...
...student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories at his command.- (2) He has the benefit of better instructors.- (c) He enjoys to a fuller extent the advantages of the elective system: Educational Review, IV, 366 fg.; VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, II, 460.- (1) He is allowed to pursue unhampered the studies for which he is most fitted...