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...During a recent botanical expedition which Professor Dudley made through Pennsylvania, he found three specimens of plants that had never been found in that state before...
...correspondent hinted in his recent communication on the subject, the Cricket Club, is in need of more substantial support from the members of the university. New grounds near Felton Hall have been bespoken, but the rent, cost of ploughing, harrowing, sodding, rolling, watering and other expenses must be defrayed. Several matches have already been arranged with the Longwood and other local clubs, and also with the University of Pennsylvania. Now, if the University of Pennsylvania sends a team to Cambridge, the Clicket Club must pay one half of their expenses, besides the cost of entertaining them in a fitting manner...
...Inter-collegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Columbia, Cornell, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Brown has decided to have its annual regatta on the 4th of July next. The race will be rowed on either Lake Quinsigamond, George or Saratoga. At a recent meeting held in New York, Pennsylvania and Cornell voted in favor of racing in eight-oared shells instead of the four-oars previously used. The association decided to have an eight-oared race if any two colleges should send eight-oars; this race to occur a week after the regular race. A single scull race will also...
Professor Hill called attention, a day or two ago, with reference to these very lectures, to what he termed the "lack of literary curiosity among Harvard men." He had observed, he said, but very little interest from students, in the recent Lanciani lectures - the usual thing in the case of a purely literary subject. It is as much to be deplored as the fact that the English department does not have more scope allowed it, that after all such a comparatively few of the men now in college have this literary curiosity. It is a notorlous fact that a French...
...relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace: its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch...