Word: hebraic
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...lecture dwelt upon the origin of the Menorah, the seven-branched candle-stick, in the festival described in the Book of Maccabees. He went on to describe the 500 years' struggle between the Hellenic and Hebraic ideals, which culminated in the annihilation of the Jews as a nation after the conquest of Judaea by Titus. Beauty was the Greek ideal, while that of the Hebrews was goodness, and of this the Menorah was emblematic...
...series of lectures delivered by Dr. Lyman Abbott h. '90, before the Lowell Institute of Boston, last winter, has been collected into book form under the title "The Rights of Man." These essays trace the growth of the Hebraic democracy from its earliest stages to the present day; describing the downfall of the Roman policy of imperialism and the rise of the rights of the people, religious, educational, political and industrial. The author believes that the United States represent the highest modern development of democracy; accordingly the problems, the possibilities and the dangers which present themselves to the members...
...cast of characters is as follows: Duke de Grabo, a rich miser of Hebraic decent, T. L. Holmes '99 Count Giocoso of Pisa, a jovial gentleman in financial difficulties, G. S. T. Newell...
...digging on the new athletic grounds at Rutgers, evidences of a copper mine known to have been worked a hundred years ago, were found, also a number of Indian relics and a marble slab with Hebraic characters inscribed upon...