Word: americanisms
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During the year 1906-1907 Professor Lyon was in Jerusalem as Director of the American School for Oriental Study and Research in Palestine. This school, which is now seven years old, was established in order to do for Semitic and Biblical scholarship what the schools in Athens and Rome do for classical scholarship. There were six students last year, of whom two were from Harvard and two from Yale. As a rule the students of this school expect to become clergymen or teachers of Semitic. The school is supported mainly by contributions from a variety of institutions of learning...
...William Lord Smith of Boston, member of the American Geographical Society and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, will deliver an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday night on "Tiger Shooting" and Travels in Korea,' China and Java...
Next Thursday, October 3, at 10 A. M., Professor Paul Clemen of the University of Bonn, our new guest from Germany, will begin his American activity by giving, in the large lecture room of Robinson Hall, his first lecture in the course on German and French Art from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. Permit me to express the hope that at that hour a large body of Harvard students will be present in Robinson Hall to give Professor Clemen a hearty welcome in our midst...
...University of Berlin, on "The Tendency of Positive Religions to Universal Religion." Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will also give an illustrated description of Harvard University. Immediately after the exercises the foreign guests and delegates will lunch at the Union at the invitation of the University, and the American delegates will be the guests of the First Parish of Cambridge, in the Parish House. From 2 to 4 o'clock there will be personally conducted tours to the University grounds, buildings and museums, and to the historic and literary points of interest in Cambridge. At 4 o'clock, tea will...
...Geneva," Professor E. Montet, Geneva; "The tendency of Positive Religions to Universal Religion," Professor Otto Pfleiderer, Berlin; an illustrated description of Harvard University, Professor Peabody. Foreign guests and delegates are invited by the University to lunch at the Harvard Union: admission by red or white badge, 12.30 P. M. American delegates and members are invited by the First Parish of Cambridge to lunch in the Parish House; admission by blue badge, 12.30 P. M. Personally conducted visits to the University grounds, buildings and museums, and to the historic and literary land marks of Cambridge...