Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...psalms having passages strikingly similar to the Biblical psalms. The theological system, with its greater gods and its demons, can be pretty thoroughly made out. In the sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy, considerable progress was made. Numerous astronomical reports exist. There are also writings showing the beginning of grammar, legicograhy, medicine, botany, zoology and geology. The enormous number of books relating to the social and private life of the people is reserved for the next lecture...
...those representing syllables. For our ease in consulting and learning the signs they can be arranged in groups and subgroups according to their varying degrees of complexity. The script is the chief difficulty in learning the Babylonian language, but by the aid of transliterations it is possible to learn grammar and vocabulary with acquiring the signs...
...reading of these books may no longer be called decipherments, because the great facts of the script and the language are now well known. The working out of the nicer details of the grammar, the enlargement of our knowledge of the vocabulary, the discovery and publication of new books, the interpretation of the multitude of facts contained in the Babylonian books regarding early history, religion and art-these are the delightful tasks before the students of today...
...Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right...
Ginn and Co. have just issued a new edition of Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar revised by Mr. George L. Kittredge, former professor of Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy. Mr. Kittredge is at present connected with the English department of Harvard, and is one of the foremost scholars of the country...