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...been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula of the old Pehlevi inscriptions to the shorter cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis. Grotfeend made out several of the letters accurately and several...
...photographic outfits furnish for their customers. It seems to me that there is no reason why the old society should not be revived or a new one for the same purpose, started. The spring is the time of year when the most work is done and I am sure there are enough men in Harvard University who are interested in photography and who would sustain a society if started, to make it worth while for some man to take the lead and call a meeting of those interested in the matter. There is no reason why a club could...
...past. At Harvard, the papers have learned to rely upon themselves and confine their comments upon their contemporaries to friendly and usually straightforward criticisms. The proposed dinner is a rational outcome of the tendency towards co-operation, and of the decroase in the spirit of rivalry. We are sure it will call forth great enthusiasm and much good feeling and hope the plan will be successfully carried...
...organization will be wide-spread, and the change will have the effect of bringing together the best material from all the New England preparatory schools. Harvard men feel a deep interest for the success of the association as it is now formed, and the schools may be sure that they will do all in their power to add to this success...
...additional stimulus to hard work among the candidates, and ready support and encouragement throughout the college. Luce's position will be difficult to fill, but this is only a stronger reason for every man who has any ability in pitching to present himself as a candidate and make sure that it is not through any laziness or negligence of his that the nine may have no satisfactory pitcher next season. With so many positions which must be filled with new men, nothing but the greatest energy and enthusiasm among all ball players can give Harvard a chance for success this...