Word: western
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...historical compilations, while still others are proclamations or letters from the king, petitions to him or reports from his generals and his governors. The total impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There...
...cuneiform script was employed by several nations in western Asia, including the Babylonians and Assyrians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Persians. It was at first a picture writing, like the Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest...
...Glee and Banjo Clubs took a trip to Jamaica Plain last evening and were warmly received by a large audience in Elliot Hall. The programme was, in the main, made up of selections used on the western trip. Of the two organizations, the Banjo Club, was evidently the favorite, and easily carried off the honors of the evening. The rendering of the "Darkey's Dream," finding especial favor with the audience The Glee Club was not quite up to its usual high standard and showed signs of lack of rehearsing. It is to be hoped that the want of interest...
...sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students. The excellent work done in this laboratory is exerting a great influnce over the country, and preparatory schools, especially Exeter, are establishing physical laboratories on the same plan. The western part of the building is devoted to special work. Here everything depends on stability of position. Besides small recitation-rooms and small laboratories, there are small rooms where the professors, assistants and advanced students can work without any disturbance of their instruments. In the basement, and in the first story, stone...
...Western Club has been organized at Exeter...