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William L. Moran S.J. will become lecturer in Assyriology in July. Moran is a scholar in cuneiform studies...
...necklace of history courses at eleven, the brooch is History 184a, which emphasizes Chinese thought from the Han dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasties. For diversion there are introductions to Czech and Polish (Slavic Ca and Da) and Hittite (Linguistics 225). The last presumes no previous knowledge of cuneiform and should just round out you Gen Ed program...
Harvard snagged five of 270 Guggenheims fellowship awards for 1962. Win of grants for scholarly and scientific research: Edmund I. Gordon, follow of the American Schools of Oriental Research, who will study the history of the ancient Middle East based on cuneiform tablets excavated at Hi-Amarna, Egypt; Robert W. Meevs, assistant professor of Music, musical compositions General A. Halten, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, automatic information storage and retrieval; Jack M. Stein, producer of German, relation between text and musical setting in 18th and 19th century German song; and Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of of Chemistry, phosphate...
Scholars who can read the cuneiform writing of ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...
Since joining the Faculty as an instructor in 1959, Watkins has taught courses in Greek and Latin comparative grammar, Cuneiform Hittite, and Phonemics. In 1954-55 he studied in Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship...