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To supply a long felt want the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis originated in 1895 a plan of establishing a similar school in Palestine. Palestine was for centuries the thoroughfare between the far East and Europe, and buried in her soil therefore are undoubtedly inscriptions, monuments and relics which...
"The Oriental Society cannot express too warmly its approval of this enterprise, believing that the existence of such a school would give a new impulse to Biblical and Oriental scholarship."
The "Peer Gynt Suite" played by the orchestra was enthusiastically received. In "Morgenstimmung," where Grieg gives the scene of Peer's death, the joyousness of the daybreak is strangely contrasted with the sad minor strains of which death is the theme. In "Aase's Tod" is expressed the sinking to...
The collection contains many old and out of the way books in oriental and other foreign languages, but, as the cases have not yet been opened, nothing definite can be said of their contents at present.
$143,901.77. Henry C. Warren. $15,000 to the endowment of Harvard Oriental Series, $10,000 to the Dental School, $10,000 to the Peabody Museum for carrying on explorations, and $108,901.77 for benefit of Indo-Iranian or Sanskrit Department.