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...Yale catalogue for 1899-1900 announces thirty new elective courses open to seniors and juniors. Ten of these are in philosophy, six in mathematics, six in modern languages, three in English, two in Greek, two in ancient history, and one in Assyrian. The complete enrollment in the academic department is as follows: Seniors, 326; juniors, 258; sophomores, 307; freshmen, 336; total, 1227; an increase of two over last year...
Professor Moore has lately received for the Fogg Art Museum an invoice of photographs from London representing all the antiquities of the British Museum. These photographs comprise Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, and Graeco-Roman works of art in the departments of sculpture, painting and pottery. By this acquisition, the number of photographs in the collection is increased to nearly 20,000. For the practical purposes of the student, these photographs are as useful as the objects themselves in the British Museum...
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...
Lecture. Semitic Languages and Literatures. I. Assyrian. Professor Lyon. Sever...
Lecture. Semitic Languages and Literatures. I. Assyrian. Professor Lyon. Sever...