Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...already familiar, as no equivalent is offered, and a degree is conferred on those only who have followed the beaten track. Hebrew, which we might expect to have thoroughly taught in a department where a competent knowledge of the Bible is the foundation-stone, is undoubtedly best known by Jewish scholars. To employ one of these in teaching would be carrying out the unsectarian principles of the School to the letter; but, as far as we know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian...