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...weeks ago. Several of us from different quarters had a little hesitation about delaying [concentration declaration] too much because if you start the requirement too late, you’re not going to be able to do anything serious,” says Machinist, the Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages. “In our field, you can’t start a language in your junior year...
...seems to be in the nature of genius to zero in on its purpose. In the 1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone...
...while most of the controversy over the film centers on its alleged anti-Semitism, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy, said it raises a different debate...
While a traditional reading of the Torah, a collection of the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, started the coordinating council’s meeting last week, students at the gathering were led—for the first time—by a female undergraduate, Anna M. Solomon-Schwartz...
Earlier this school year, I performed a piece at the Harvard Foundation’s Complexities of Color event that felt like a turning point for me in terms of my poetry. The piece incorporated singing, narrative, Hebrew, Ewe (one of the major languages spoken in Ghana), and English. I had been missing Ghana, where I lived for part of last year, and I felt so much calmer once I figured out how to express my feelings...