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...name, Aramaic, said Professor Moore, is given by modern scholars to one great branch of the Semitic languages. The earlier seats of Aramaic are unknown. It is first recognized in the country stretching north from the Euphrates to the mountains of Armenia. It is probable that Aramaic did not spread westward until...
Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire in its western provinces. At the fall of the Assyrian empire it overspread Asia, except Arabia, and supplanted the Semitic languages. The reason it spread is unknown; but the conquest was almost as complete as was that of Arabic later at the time of the Moslem conquest...
...dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed were unknown then. The gymnasium then was small, but it was freely and conscientiously used; and the men who graduated then were probably of as sound bodies as those of today...
Instruction in those days was a much simpler matter than it is now, being chiefly routine work and that not very severe. The few text books used were of the most elementary kind and are now almost unknown. The condition of the library was very unsatisfactory. There was no income provided for the purchase of books, all books being acquired either by presentation or by special appropriation. Not until 1863 was the card catalogue introduced by Ezra Abbott who spent three years in perfecting this device which is now in general use in all libraries. Until 1857 all examinations...
...control his party's nominations: Arena X, 456, (Sept., 1894).- His personal character does not now affect his chance of election.- (x) If he can secure nomination his chance of election now depends upon his party's chance of carrying the legislature.- (A) A caucus bolt is almost unknown.- (Y) His personal character does not effect his party's chance of carrying the legislature.- (A) His candidacy for the Senate is usually not positively known before the election of the legislature: Ex. Hill, Murphy, Platt, (1881), Smith.- (B) People do not vote against their party's ticket for legislature...