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...Zoological Club will meet at the Museum this evening. Doors open: 7.15-7.30. Short papers on Eyes in Cave Crustacea; (2) Origin of Limb-buds in fishes and birds; (3) Assexual Reproduction in Turbellarians...
...development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script...
...lusts of the flesh. But as we grow old, we lose our delicate susceptibility to the breathing spirit of God. We quench the spirit often by indifference. A great many lives have no room for God. Their worldly ambitions quench the spirit. Power, reverence and joy all have their origin in this spirit of reverence, and if we desire these qualities we must not quench the spirit...
...this society. Every student who has come here from another section of the country has noticed that the pronunciation, or the usage of some words differs from that to which he has been accustomed, also, that he meets words which are entirely new to him. Such differences, their origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will be studied by the society. This study of the natural and unconsidered speech of people in different localities must prove a fruitful one, and will doubtless be productive of results that will reveal much that...
...attention of the Norsemen, owing to violent political upheavals, was turned toward Iceland and many of them migrated to that country. About half of the population was thus of Scandinavian origin, while the remainder came from Great Britain. These old Norsemen were a fine set of men, much superior to those we see there now. They supported themselves by commerce with the surrounding countries, and by what little agriculture they could carry on in their island...