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...Harvard man. In these days Harvard is being sufficiently attacked on almost every side for a host of imaginary evils which, it is declared, exist within her walls. The press throughout the country is ever ready to seize upon and largely exaggerate any slight report which may contain ground for an attack on the college. Therefore it is, that the correspondent is culpable of gross disloyalty to his college, first-if he be sincere-in compiling totally inaccurate figures and deducing wrong conclusions from them, and secondly,-if he has intended expressly to work against Harvard-in giving the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comparative Growth of Harvard and Yale. | 2/5/1890 | See Source »

...February number of the Century will contain an article by Professor G. P. Fisher, of Yale, on "The Gradualness of Revelation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1890 | See Source »

...blue books in French A which contain the term's exercises will be called for on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/17/1890 | See Source »

...Hitchcock, director of the department of physical culture at Cornell, is preparing an illustrated work on in-door athletics. It will contain illustrations for which students will pose, of over a hundred positions in wrestling, boxing and fencing. He is also compiling a chart showing the physical proportions of young men. Statistics of measurements will be drawn from Yale, Amherst, Oberlin, Cornell and various colleges throughout the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/14/1890 | See Source »

...intended that the museum, when established, shall contain all the material necessary for the thorough study of Semitic literature and archaeology. This material includes cuneiform inscriptions on bricks, cylinders, seals, and monuments, either original or in the form of casts; Phoenician coins and inscriptions; Syriac inscriptions and manuscripts; Hebrew coins and manuscripts, together with facsimiles of the Siloam inscription and of that of the Moabite stone (this last the oldest known writing in the Phoenician character); Arabic coins and manuscripts; Sabean inscriptions; Etheopic manuscripts; specimens of the fauna and flora of Semitic lands; and a work library and study rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Semitic Museum. | 1/11/1890 | See Source »

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