G. Smith

The writer has seldom enjoyed himself more than in showing an American friend over Oxford. He has felt something of the same enjoyment in preparing, with the hope of interesting some American visitors, this outline of the history of the University and her Colleges. He would gladly believe that Oxford and Cambridge, having now, by emancipation an...

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SOME explanation is necessary in introducing my present work. Little time has elapsed since I discovered the most important of these inscriptions, and in the intervening period I have had, amidst Other work, to collect the various fragments of the legends, copy, compare, and translate, altering my matter from time to time, as new fragments turne...

A short time back I discovered among the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum, an account of the flood; which, under the advice of our President, I now bring before the Society. For convenience of working, I had divided the collection of Assyrian tablets in the British Museum into sections, according to the subject matter of the inscriptions. ...

When Count Tolstoi was excommunicated by the Holy Synod of Russia because ""he preached the teachings which are contrary to the Christian faith,"" the world was divided in opinion and sympathy into two parts. The partisans of Tolstoi were in the majority in the Western world; those of the Holy Synod in Russia and the Orthodox East. Yet Holy Russ...

  The traditional model of video news reporting has always had two separate roles: reporting and videography. For years, however, small-market news outlets have relied on ""one-man bands""-individual reporters who shoot and edit their own video-for stories and footage. Lately, as the journalism landscape has evolved, this controversial practice ...