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...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...
Prof. Lanciani spoke last evening on the Discovery of the House of the Vestals. He said the recent excavations about the foot of the Palatine have brought to light many historical inscriptions, which have enabled him to trace much of the history and manner of life of the vestals. This order was held in the deepest reverence by all classes of people. Its influence in the state was tremendous. The highest honors of the Empire were bestowed on its members. The time they were pledged to the service of Vesta was thirty years, which period was divided into three decades...
...more important of Harvard's predecessors in England and on the Continent. The old abbeys and monasteries were the foundations of the present universities, but these centres of learning had but little permanence. The best scholars did not long remain in one place, but became travelling teachers. We must trace then, how these men began to co-operate in the prosecution of their studies, and how thereby they formed educational centres. In the middle ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries...
...very apt in this part of the world to trace every thing back to the "Mayflower," and there is no small reason for it now, when we consider how signal a mark our great mother University on the Cam has put upon this region about Boston harbor and its affluents. One of the first expeditions which the Pilgrims at Plymouth sent out, was one by boat under command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance...
...trail. After waiting several minutes and shouting "Tally.Ho" repeatedly and finding that the rest of the pack were not to be found, followed the paper down to Norton's Woods, where it was again lost. After a long search, it was discovered, and passing through Hovey's nursery, the trace ended at Cambridge St. The bags were not found, however, as darkness had closed in. The pack then called in the stragglers, and after cheering the H. A. A. made a regular break for the gymnasium. Messrs. R. T. Paine, Jr., '88, and A. T. Perkins, '87, were respectively first...