Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...verb forms, peculiar mode of expressing the genitive relation, close union of the personal pronouns with noun or verb, absence of a neuter gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially to the Hebrew. A Hebrew scholar on first looking at a translated Babylonian writing recognizes many familiar words. If Sennacherib's letters to Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language but in the Hebrew written character the receiver could have understood it with ease. There was no essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms...
...series of five lectures on "The Intellectual Life in Germany," will be given in Sever 11, at 7.30 o'clock under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Henry Villard, of New York, will speak in German on "Das Deutschland von Heute." Mr. Villard is a fine German scholar, has traveled considerably in Germany, and has been in close relations with Prince Bismark, so that those who understand German, by attending the lecture tonight, will undoubtedly learn much that is of interest in regard to the present political outlook of Germany...
...entertain on Christmas eve those of us who are obliged for one reason or another to remain in Cambridge during the recess. It is needless to say that all who can have hitherto availed themselves of this rare treat. There are too few opportunities for personal intercourse between scholar and preceptor in the course of our studies for any one to neglect such an opportunity. The pity is that such chances are so rare. The size and unwieldiness of this institution of learning is such as to prevent any but the slightest acquaintance from existing between student and instructor...
...here is that too little attention is paid to lectures given especially to their benefit and that only when some distinguished visitor speaks do they show their approbation by a good attendance. If Professor Toy were a member of some college other than our own, his reputation as a scholar and a traveller would undoubtedly bring out a large attendance, but the fact of his connection with the college means to a number of men that as they can see and hear him at almost any time, there is but little use in going to his lecture. If there...
...volume of selections from William Morris's poems entitled Atalanta's Race and Other Lules from The Earthly Paradise. The little volume is edited by Oscar Fay Adams, well known in literary circles both in and out of Cambridge, with the assistance of Prof, William J. Rolfe, the Shakespearian scholar. The book is mainly designed for young students of English literature, who, lacking time for an exhaustive study, are still desirous of becoming familiar with William Morris's work. Mr. Adams's selection of poems seems to be a very happy one for this purpose. The introduction, though short...