Word: gender
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physiognomic and mental traits, so the languages which they spoke are sharply distinguished from the other great groups of languages. The triliteralism of stems, simplicity of verb forms, peculiar mode of expressing the genitive relation, close union of the personal pronouns with noun or verb, absence of a neuter gender-these are some of the distinguishing traits of Semitic languages. The Babylonian is closely related to its sisters and especially to the Hebrew. A Hebrew scholar on first looking at a translated Babylonian writing recognizes many familiar words. If Sennacherib's letters to Hezekiah had been in the Assyrian language...
...truth which all he may say or do will yet be heard and recognized, does not merit the name 'educator." If an opportunity to gain an education means an opportunity offered to men only, if the word college shall be allowed to stand as significant to the male gender only, if girls because they are girls, are to be forbidden privileges which are rights of their brothers then the action of Columbia was ill-advised. But if to learn applies with equal significance to all, if colleges are to be considered as common benefits open to either...