Word: naming
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed. Every communication must be accompanied by the name of the writer...
...derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous to the name-giving and selecting intervention of the East, the long history of our alphabet was a Western one and its home was the Mediterranean...
...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed. Every communication must be accompanied by the name of the writer...
...Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness of Simon's character gave way to the strength Christ meant for him to have, and he indeed becomes Peter, the "rock" and martyr of the church...
...significant fact that Peter called himself in his letter by both names. He realized the weakness of character that the old name "Simon" connoted, and yet he was not ashamed to use it. There was no sting in the old memories, no rankling of the old faults and failures, because he had made them the stepping stones "to brighter things." Old sins, if they have been conquered, need never cause remorse...