Word: sinai
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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February 17-"Four weeks in the Desert of Mount Sinai." Dr. H. Carrington Bolton...
...Prof. Sophocles, and called upon Mr. Edwin H. Abbott to say a few words about him and his last moments. Mr. Abbott stated that after his death many letters were discovered showing his kindliness. He had been in the habit of sending presents to the monks on Mount Sinai, amongst whom he had been educated as a boy, and had never forgotten them. "Lauriger Horatius" was then sung, and the company dispersed...
...often brought us delicious cakes, which had been sent him from his native country, and once he presented us with a small bag of dates and almonds sent him by the monks of Mt. Sinai, among whom he received his early education. The bag, in shape like a large sausage, was made of the prepared skin of some animal, into which the fruit and nuts had been pounded solidly. When eaten it was cut like an ordinary sausage and the skin peeled off. One evening he came to our house much terrified. He said that he had been attending...
...them. His early life, before he came to this country to be-come in an almost accidental way a teacher of the teachers in Greek learning, was shrouded in a mystery, real or apparent, which he always refused to dispel. Born near Mount Pelion and educated in the Mount Sinai Monastery, he, for some unexplained reason, came to this country when a young man, and after a period of study drifted into teaching, and became finally one of the most distinguished members of the Harvard faculty. [Times...
...seventy-six. For the last three years Professor Sophocles has been unable to take any active part in teaching on account of his continued ill-health. He was a Greek, his birth-place being near Mt. Pelion, in Thessaly, and received his early education in the convent on Mt. Sinai. When but a youth he emigrated to the United States, and in this country completed his education at Amherst College. He was tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern...