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Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...
...Hieratic script selected as the model of the Phoenician alphabet by Count Emmanuel de Rouge's theory and thus, if theory is abandoned, and a derivation from Cretan pictographs is substituted, we have a more or less ascertained history to substitute for de-Rouge's backward leap of one thousand years...
...Graduates a prize of one hundred dollars will be given for an original essay in either Latin or Greek, of not less than three thousand words. Any subject may be chosen by a competitor, but each man must be the holder of an academic degree and must be a resident student in the Graduate School for one full year, within the period between 1898-1901. Essays already presented for prizes or academic distinctions else-where than in Harvard, are not admissable. The winners of these prizes will be announced on the Commencement programme, this June...
...correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades of labor employed. The railroad managers in giving out their figures have been accustomed to throwing all the grades about a thousand in number, into five classes and giving the average for each class. Henry C. Adams, Statistician of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is working toward dividing their scale of wages far more accurately into a large number of classes. But even here the inherent difficulties of the problem are increased by the innovation...
About fifteen hundred men took part in the Republican college parade last night; one thousand from Harvard and the rest from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Men from the Harvard graduate departments headed the procession and were followed by the Harvard Republican Band. The Seniors were next, and after them a drag occupied by the editors of the Republican and two landaus with the officers of the Republican Club. The classes of 1902, 1903, and 1904 followed in order. The Technology contingent, headed by a float, brought up the rear. All the marchers carried torches and each division...