Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...University Extension Division, is helping to make possible the exercise of the "international mind" through the spoken word. When the courses which are announced to begin next Monday are in progress, there will be a wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages...