Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chair of Hebrew Founded...
...will lead, a discussion group on present Jewish problems on Sunday afternoons through-out the year. At regular intervals Professor Nathan Isaacs will meet those interested in Jewish Law. In the spring the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies will combine to give a group of plays by prominent Hebrew playwrights. Several such pieces were presented last year with great success...
...lanterns in the dim aisles of the Yard. But two hundred years ago, Commencement Day was the occasion of a general jollification among the populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked to Cambridge, and choked the quiet precincts of the town and college until, we are reminded, the place was nothing less than Revere Beach in eighteenth century miniature...
...15th of Tishri (Hebrew Calendar) which occurred last week brought with it the Jewish festival Succoth, "Harvest Feast," "Feast of Tabernacles," "Feast of Ingathering," "Feast of Booths," as it is variously called...
...become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking himself seriously. A short, genial little man, with a big mouth and eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business. Mr. Loew was at that time a furrier. He had done well at the trade of transforming the skins of dead beasts into...