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...additions to the museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...McClure, D.D., LL.D., President of the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago, will preach at the eighth vesper service of the year, to be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The musical program is an follows: "The Lard is my rock." Woodman; aria from "Elijah," Mendelssohn; "Here Discovered our Foundations," Grieg. Mr. Ralph Osborne will be the soloist. Front seats on the floor will be reserved until 4.55 o'clock for members of the University and their friends...
...Smith was educated as a mechanical engineer. He built the Race Rock lighthouse off New London and laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He is also well known as an artist and an author. His landscape work in water-colors and charcoal have been awarded medals at several expositions and by many art societies. Mr. Smith has written some delightful short stories, the best known of which are "The Under Dog," "The Wood Fire in No. 3" and "Colonel Carter of Cartersville...
...large paved area flanked by massive walls, on which were found the inverted bases of four columns. Beyond the paved platform, there are probably the remains of a temple. To the west of the stairway a chamber 20 by 40 feet in size was found partly cut in the rock. A large pit in the floor was not explored because of lack of time. At the foot of the stairway the trunk of a marble statue, probably of some Roman emperor, was discovered, as well as an altar. Two small columns with Latin inscriptions were unearthed, one lying...
...various periods stood here. A broad stairway is Roman, at the foot of which were found an altar, two small culumns bearing Latin inscriptions, and the figure of a Roman emperor in marble. At one side of the stairway there is a large vaulted chamber cut partly in the rock. Remains of Greek and Roman pottery were found in great quantities...