Word: germanicism
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If we trace the history of the English language back to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language...
Roscoe Addison Small, A. M. Bates Coll., Me., 1892, A. B. Harvard Univ. 1894, A. M. Ibid 1895; III yr. Graduate School; English and Germanic Philology; promoted from a University Scholarship. The first appointment to this new scholarship.
Albert Elmer Hancock, B. S. Wesleyan Coll. Conn. 1891, A. M. Harvard Univ. 1895; II yr. Graduate School; English; in place of Roscoe Addison Small (English and Germanic Philology) promoted.
(2) in Germanic Languages and Literatures, or
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, professor of the Germanic languages and literature in Columbia College, died suddenly on Friday of heart disease.