Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order of the Passover" in Hebrew, and two or three of the "Officium Beatae Virginis et quaedam alia" and the first engraved map of the world, believed to be a copyright of the one made by Columbus in 1498, representing Greenland and America as part of Asia. Besides these there are some collections of very rare...
...studies are divided into departments containing from two to four subjects each, and if the student seeks special honors he must take two subjects. Some studies are brought from Senior year, such as laboratory chemistry, biology, histology, comparative politics, international law, history of philosophy, history of art, and archeology. Hebrew and early English are introduced...
...electives of Junior year are open to the Seniors, but in addition to these, a Senior has a choice of additional electives. Changes from the old courses are the introduction of contemporary philosophy under mental philosophy, science of government, Roman and municipal law under political science, advanced Hebrew under ancient languages, advanced biology under sciences, and probably Italian and the change of physical geography from Junior to Senior year...
...valuable Arabic library and one of Syrian and Hebrew have been received by the University of Pennsylvania...
...Semitic languages and history, course 12 of last year's pamphlet becomes course 11 this year, and what was course 11 last year, the third course in Assyrian, is omitted. Three new historical courses are offered in this department next year covering the history of Israel, history of the Hebrew religions, and history of the Spanish Califate...