Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum and lecturer in Semitic Languages, was named yesterday to the Hancock Professorship of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages. The appointment was announced by Paul H. Buck, Provost of the University...
...three-year college course was a strictly confined, minutely planned curriculum. In his first year the student of 1642 took Logic and Physics on Monday and Tuesday, Greek Grammar on Wednesday, Hebrew Grammar on Thursday, Rhetoric on Friday and Divinity Catechetical, History and Nature of Plants on Saturday. In his second year he studied Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Ethics and Politics, Greek Grammar and Aramaic and in his third year, Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Syriac, Arithmetic and Geometry, Astronomy and Greek composition. No deviation was allowed from this course of study...
...more than 200 years the college curriculum varied little. As late as 1775 a fine was imposed for speaking anything but Latin, Greek or Hebrew within the confines of the Yard. The first elective course was introduced in 1825, but it remained for President Eliot to develop the elective system to its full degree...
...years, under the name of the class. Subjects were taught not in open courses, but as Freshman Mathematics, Sophomore German, Junior Greek or Senior Rhetoric. But starting with 1873-4, the required and elective courses were no longer listed under the class, but under eight departments: Classics (Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit), Modern Languages (English, German, French, Italian and Spanish), Philosophy, History, Political Science, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Natural History (geography, Botany, Anatomy and Physiology, Zoology, Geology), and Music...
Though a longtime Republican, 57-year-old Joseph Bibb is no professional politician. Born in Montgomery, Ala. where his father taught Hebrew and Greek at a theological school, he is a practicing lawyer (Yale Law School, 1918) and managing editor of the Pittsburgh Courier's Chicago edition. As safety director, Bibb will boss four state penitentiaries, the 500-man state police force, all state parole agents and the Division of Criminal Investigation and Identification...