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Word: instead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
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...exercise books in Mathematics E are to be handed in on Monday next instead of on Friday of this week as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/6/1890 | See Source »

Professor Hart gave a talk on Speaker Reed's decision in History XIII. yesterday instead of the regular course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/5/1890 | See Source »

...would be very glad to have the CRIMSON name some of these gentlemen. No member has objected to the management of the club at any of its meetings. If any member has objections to the managment of the club, and does not voice those objections at the proper time instead of grumbling to editors of the CRIMSON and other outsiders, such a man is better out of the club than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/4/1890 | See Source »

...this century, before the day of railroads, and the plot turns on the misadventures of an old Paris bourgeois, who, with his wife and daughter, starts on a trip to Dieppe to see the ocean, and by a series of intricate circumstances, finds himself the next morning in Paris instead of at his destination. The play is in three acts and has a large number of characters. If members of the society show energy in volunteering their services it cannot fail of being a success. Members who wish to act should send in their names as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Francaise. | 2/28/1890 | See Source »

...intelligent communication, and the most primitive way was by pictures. These at first represented objects, then actions, then adjectives and prepositions, and finally determinatives, expressing genera and species, were introduced, which eliminated much of the former obscurity. The next stage of development was the representation by signs of syllables, instead of whole words or ideas. The final step, the employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions. The Egyptians had the first real alphabet, real in the sense of having a sign for each letter. Babylonian and even Arabic have signs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Toy's Lecuture. | 2/25/1890 | See Source »

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