Word: modes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 to the Hebrew. A Hebrew scholar on first looking...
...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 of pen and ink drawings. This desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings led to a very important advance in the art. Hitherto all the lines, with the exception of the outline, had been straight...
...take an active interest in the class for general exercise recently formed by Mr. Lathriop. The class is given instruction daily in the use of dumb-bells and Indian clubs, followed by practice in tumbling. The number of men who take part in this last mode of exercise now numbers about thirty and from the improvement which has been apparent during the past few weeks it is certain that when the winter meetings arrive, there will be a large list of entries for the event in "tumbling" which has always been a source of amusement to the spectators...
...examinations. Much annoyance is caused both to students and instructor by non-compliance with this simple request. It is disagreeable for the instructor to be obliged to resort, for punishment of the offenders, to the expedients of school boy days; yet it is eminently proper that some mode of expressing displeasure of the student's action should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes suffer an entire room full of men, since one cannot settle down to work while even a slight amount of bustle...
...treasurer of the Athletic Association of the University of Pennsylvania, after an account of the mode of conducting athletics in that university, says...