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...Malachi, the last of the Old Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world, we must know the history of the transition period. This is contained in the books of the Apocrypha, which are, unfortunately, not printed in American bibles...
...early Norsemen, who were first known and mentioned by the Greeks and Romans, have been confused with the Saxons, but it is not at all probable that such a seafaring race as the Saxons must thus have been, could have so completely changed their habits in 300 years, and moreover have left no traces of their previous customs. On the shores of the Baltic Mr. du Chaillu discovered countless graves in which were Roman coins of gold and silver dating back to Augustus and Tiberius, even as late as the Republic, also Greek vases of wonderful work and glass vases...
...executive committee of the Engineering Society has planned a series of public lectures to begin after the mid-years and extend through the year. One lecture will be given each month by some speaker well known in the scientific world. Mr. Clemens Herschel, of New York, will lecture on Roman Acqueducts in the latter part of February. In the latter part of March Francis B. Crocker, professor of electrical engineering in Columbia College, and inventor of the Crocker-Wheeler motor, will speak. His subject will probably be the Definitions of Electric Measurement. These dates are not positively decided...
...Chairman of Italian and Spanish; Professor White that of Professor Smith as Chairman of Classics; Professor Royce that of Professor Palmer as Chairman of Philosophy; Professor Macvane that of Professor Dunbar as Chairman of History and Political Science; Professor Gross that of Professor Emerton as chairman of History and Roman Law; Professor Norton that of Professor Moore as Chairman of Fine Arts; Professor Hall that of Professor Trowbridge as Chairman of Physics; Professor Jackson that of Professor Cooke as chairman of Chemistry; and Professor Davis that of Professor Shaler as Chairman of Geology...
...Roman Phil...