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MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE.The next meeting of the Conference will be held on Monday, December 15, at 7.30 p. m., in Sever 2. The following papers will be read: The Origin of the Names of the English Alphabet. Professor Sheldon.- Diderot's Influence on Goethe. Mr. G. H. Page.- David Mallet's Literary Forgeries. Mr. W. L. Phelps.- These meetings are open to all members of the university interested in Modern Literature and Philology...
...calendar, embraces papers on "The French in Shakespeare," on "The Liberal Student Movement in Germany," and on "A Problem in Middle English." At the second meeting, which probably will be held on Dec. 15, among other subjects Didert's influence upon Goethe, the names of the English Alphabet, and David Mallet's literary forgeries will be considered. The meetings will be open to all members of the University interested in modern language study and literary criticism...
...Babylon in captivity these kept records of the events, and today we have libraries containing thousands of documents concerning Babylonian life and manners. This, however, is but subordinate to the inscriptions. If a faithful scholar had not with wonderful patience compared them piece by piece, and built up an alphabet, thus enabling him to read them, we might still be in ignorance. They are of value as regards the light they throw upon Jewish history...
After the inscriptions had been discovered the work of deciphering them was tremendous and would have been impossible if it had not been that in the sixth century before Christ the Persians reduced an alphabet from this Babylonian script. The recurrence of proper names afforded a chance to compare these records with known history, but the greatest advance in decipherment was made when an extensive inscription was discovered written parallel in Persian and Cuneiform characters. Stereopticon views were shown explaining the geography of the Assyria, pictures of the ruins, excavations and restorations, and facsimiles of the inscriptions discovered...
Professor Toy of the Semitic department lectured on the alphabet yesterday afternoon in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. He said that nothing seems simpler to us than forming words and indicating sounds by letters but that the analysis of even the shortest words is hard to make. Until lately it has been universally thought that the formation of an alphabet was a task beyond human power to perform, and the Talmudic Jews claimed that the letters were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, by God. It is only in the last part of the present century that the alphabet has been...