Word: hebrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under which the students of earlier days of the college had to struggle. During a part of the 17th, and the earlier years of the last century, prayers were held both morning and evening. In the morning each student had to translate a verse of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek, and in the evening a verse of the New Testament from the English or Latin translation into Greek. Before 1728, however, this system was abolished, and a service something like the present adopted. It differed principally in its length. The President always expounded the chapter from the testament...
...Fellows in regard to voluntary attendance at prayers, shows that this policy still lacks something of completeness; and we hope that the next annual report will be devoted to an historical review of the progress in religious discipline for sixty years-say from 1826, when the study of Hebrew, from being prescribed, became optional. This seems already necessary in order to justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks for absence were first given...
...realschule when he is nine or ten The gymnasium has a nine or ten years' course, and corresponds to the American preparatory school and the first two years of college. Mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, history, geography, natural history and elementary natural philosophy, a short course in logic, with elective Hebrew and English form the course of study. The method is systematic, the discipline rigorous. The students usually pass from the gymnasium into the university.-Dartmouth...
...requirements for admission are the same as those of Harvard College; and the courses of study are nearly the same. They include courses in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian, Philosophy, Political Economy, History, Fine Arts, Music, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History. Of these, English, with 50 students, is the most popular: then come Latin, Greek, History and Mathematics, with 39, 29, 17, 17 students respectively. Political Economy, too, is quite popular. There is connected with the Annex, a library of about 1100 reference books; and the students are besides entitled to the use of books...
...practical. To them the word practical is nearly synonymous with technical. The word should be taken in a broader sence than this. Any study is more or less practical, as it tends more or less directly towards aiding one in his life's work, whatever that may be. Hebrew is just as practical to a student of theology as a knowledge of the use of tools is to a carpenter's apprentice. What is practical to one man is almost useless to another. Hence, to make a university training more practical, the opportunities for the pursuit of different studies...