Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...language is the oldest branch of the great Semitic family and is a sister to the Hebrew. Arabic, Phoenician, Ethiopian, and Aramaean. As the Semites in general have marked physiognomic and mental traits, so the languages which they spoke are sharply distinguished from the other great groups of languages. The triliteralism of stems, simplicity of verb forms, peculiar mode of expressing the genitive relation, close union of the personal pronouns with noun or verb, absence of a neuter gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially...
...does not take men away from either baseball or lacrosse who might serve them to increase the chances of success. There ought certainly to be enough men here especially from Philadelphia and New Vork, who understand the game, and who take no active part in any other branch of athletics, to furnish players and support a cricket club...
...lecturer said that art holds as important a place in the life of a nation as politics or literature. It may seem strange to select such a small and comparatively insignificant branch of art as engraving for the subject of a lecture, yet only a small portion of engraving-namely the way in which the German engravers made use of their lines in shading, will be spoken...
Engraving dates from the fifteenth century, when a remarkable intellectual activity was noticeable in Germany. During this period engraving gradually increased in importance, until it was looked upon in Germany as the leading branch in art. This was in a great measure owing to the scarcity of orders for paintings, and hence, artists, in order to support themselves, were driven to take up the then popular engraving. Still the German engravers retained their love for paintings, and their pictures resemble painting in the mode of treatment, in contrast to the Italian engravings, which are merely reproductions...
...Golden Branch literary society of Phillips Exeter Academy will celebrate its 71st anniversary tonight in the Academy Chapel. Mr. Sherman Hoar will deliver the address. The secretary of the Exeter Club has received a letter from the Golden Branch inviting all Exeter men to be present at the exercises...