Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English language in the College Yard was prohibited for almost half a century after Harvard was founded in 1636, according to Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Professor of History. Latin was used in all textbooks and lectures, but if one preferred, he could converse in Greek or Hebrew...
...last week the National Government had resisted brownshirt demands that "Hallelujah'' and "Amen"' be expunged from German religious services, but in Hanover the Governor.of the State made it illegal to sing hymns with "Hebrew names." His examples: Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls, Rejoice, Daughters of Zion, and To Thee, Jehovah, I will Sing...
David G. Lyon, professor emeritus of Hebrew and other Oriental languages since 1922, honorary curator and Founder of the Semitic Museum, died yesterday morning...
Professor Lyon acquired his A.B. at Howard College in 1875, his Ph.D. at Leipsig in 1882, and his S.T.D. at Harvard in 1901. He was Hollis professor of divinity from 1882 to 1910 and acted as Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages from 1910 to 1922, when the was given the title of professor emeritus...
...contemplated a period of study abroad that, from all accounts, the Goettingen students were "very licentious, unrestrained by the government, and addicted to duclling." The professors too, in Bancroft's opinion, were anything but gentlemen in the New England sense. They were learned, to be sure, but "they learn Hebrew, because it is better to teach Hebrew than to till the earth ... In conversation they are dull ... I have seldom been able to get any information from any of them, in company ... The answer always is, I read a lecture on the subject, which you can hear next summer...