Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among the interesting business sessions will be one which is to be conducted in Hebrew and in which members of the University Hebrew Speakers Club will partake...
...believed that there was a growing purpose and sense in the world of justice for all mankind, but it was not the justice depicted in the Bible as exhibited by the Hebrew God, it was not the best justice of mankind today towards fellow-men, towards women and children. He looked for the coming of a wiser justice and a justice tempered with mercy and tenderness. And that was at the root of Major Higginson's nature...
Professor Emeritus Crawford Howell Toy, LL.D. '04, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, died yesterday morning at his home, 7 Lowell street, after a prolonged illness which has prevented him from teaching for some time. He was Hancock professor at the University from 1880 to 1909, and has been Professor Emeritus since September 1, 1909. Until 1903 he was also Dexter lecturer on biblical history, and was the author of numerous books on the history of religions. At the time of his death Professor Toy was 83 years of age, having been born at Norwalk, Va., on March...
John Witherspoon, Edinburgh University 1742, D.D., St. Andrews, 1764; L.L.D., Yale, 1784, from 1768 to 1794. He introduced political science, international law, metaphysics, Hebrew and French, and was a member of the first Continental Congress...
...first professorship instituted was the Hollis professorship of divinity, established in 1721. The differentiation of the divinity school from the College was very gradual and for many years previous to 1816 students for the ministry were registered as "resident graduates," spending a single year in the advanced study of Hebrew, reading the Greek Testament, and in the discussion of theological and moral problems. Indeed, the late Dean Everett's witticism was at least half true when he claimed that the Divinity School represented the original foundation of 1636 and that the College as we know it has developed...