Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Semites are a well-defined group of peoples inhabiting Western Asia, with a history extending from the remotest past to the present day. They have done an important work in civilization, giving to the world the alphabet, monotheism, the Bible, the Koran, and the three religious-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are therefore of permanent interest to students of language, literature, history, religion, and art. The four informal lectures announced for this week and the next are intended to give a general view of the language and the literature, especially the latter, of four of the chief members...
...existence of two dailies at Harvard has involved certain features which are of very doubtful benefit. The constant effort of each paper to print everything which by even the remotest possibility may appear in the same day's issue of the rival paper, tends to cause the premature publication of matters which really need further investigation or confirmation. As a result inaccuracies sometimes occur, even though, as a rule, a paper may prefer the accuracy of an article to the chance of its being a "scoop...