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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...
...keep up the rhythmical rocking and Babel of sound to its highest pitch. This he does by occasional adjuration, strengthened by applications of a long cane, which seems to be the chief badge of his profession, and by means of which he is able to reach the remotest delinquent without the trouble of rising from his seat...
...answer to this was lost in the cry from No. 1 l. to No. 5 r: "Good enough! That's what I put. I had n't the remotest idea what it ought to be. Did n't Charles the Fat come after Bayard...
...done if after a man got into college he could not get out? He was afraid if the present tests were applied to the alumni, many would long remain within the classic shades. The emerald green of the College Yard, from the old President's house to the remotest corner of the delta, would soon be whitened with the bones of the alumni who died in ineffectual struggles to effect their escape from the college...