Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student to follow out prescribed studies, and offers no electives. Owing to this, many members of the School are obliged to go over ground with which they are already familiar, as no equivalent is offered, and a degree is conferred on those only who have followed the beaten track. Hebrew, which we might expect to have thoroughly taught in a department where a competent knowledge of the Bible is the foundation-stone, is undoubtedly best known by Jewish scholars. To employ one of these in teaching would be carrying out the unsectarian principles of the School to the letter...
Some spoke in Hebrew, some in Latin spoke...
Student (suddenly inspired). - Yes, sir, very probably, more Hebrew and less English...
DIVINITY SCHOOL: Class in Hebrew...
Prof. (facetiously). - You do allow, then, an ass to know more Hebrew than...