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Forty-five states and territories of the Union and 6 foreign countries are represented in the University. The representation from the southern and far western states has fallen off, and the increase in the enrolment has come chiefly through the larger numbers from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania...
...American Exploration Society has recently presented to the Peabody Museum one of the sixteen sarcophagi found in the necropolis of the ancient city of Musarna in the territory of Viterbo, Western Italy. The district, lying mainly on the banks of the river Leia, is now a part of the estate of Signor Alarico Pratti. The sarcophagus weighs 3300 pounds and is still in the basement of the Museum. It was found in a tomb that had already been ransacked by spoliators and which contained two chambers. Access was gained to the first chamber by the usual gallery...
First of all, it seems a great pity that the western trip of the musical clubs had to be abandoned. Coming from the west myself, I can remember the mild sensation caused in more than one family circle by the posters announcing the approach of the "Harvard University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs." It is astonishing how little is known about Harvard in anything but a general way throughout the middle states. So it was that a single concert, heralded long be fore its arrival, did much to decide in the minds of many the important question of where...
...urged that Harvard is in serious danger of being cut out by others where she should strain every nerve to keep a firm foothold; and I believe that the above suggestions would do much, if put into practice, toward helping to establish a stronger representation from the central and western states. A WESTERN UNDERGRADUATE...
...Eastern and Aegaean shores of the Mediterranean, including Asia Minor, that witnessed the earliest development of what may be called a Western civilization. In the Western part of this East-Mediterranean area, Mr. Arthur Evans in 1894 found some records of an ancient Western system of writing, an outgrowth of the early savage pictograph made in all parts of the Mediterranean district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make...