Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...language is the oldest branch of the great Semitic family and is a sister to the Hebrew. Arabic, Phoenician, Ethiopian, and Aramaean. As the Semites in general have marked physiognomic and mental traits, so the languages which they spoke are sharply distinguished from the other great groups of languages. The triliteralism of stems, simplicity of 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...
...generally been the custom of the members of the editorial boards of college journals to manifest towards the institutions of sister colleges the respect which courtesy, if nothing else, demands. In addition, it has been the custom that whatever may have been the success of the efforts of the students of sister colleges in the various branches of college life, to give credit at least for sincerity of purpose. A breach of this rule has recently been made by the edition of a college publication, namely, the Columbia Spectator-a breach so glaring as to demand our attention...
...students in the 1st year '88 sent 14. At a corresponding time '87 sent 18 and '86, a close second, sent 17. It would seem that the professional men in '88 chose the law rather than its sister profession...
...Harvard is no worse than any of her sister colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...tell. If he is a Harvard man, we cry shame upon him for his libelous attack upon the institution whose name should be dear to him; if he is a member of some other college, we cry shame upon him for bringing into question the good name of a sister college; if he is not bound to any college by ties of allegiance, we cry shame upon him for the dastardly blow he has attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North American Review because they have opened their...