Word: offing
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June 29.--Yale at New York (in case of a tie.)
The Christmas number of the Lampoon, with its four extra pages of matter, is very presentable. The best work is in the special cover by F. G. Hall and in the two drawings by R. Edwards, both of which are distinctly high class work. The centre picture, by R. H...
The editorials are readable and the shorter articles, particularly the verses, are amusing; but, on the whole, in point of merit, the reading matter still lags behind the illustrations.
Mr. Louis Dyor, M. A., gave the second of his three lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking as his special subject "The Cretan Alphabets." He said in part:
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years...