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...days, in the bright lexicon of the Senior's youth, are fast merging into "Might-have-been" nights. R. SIMUIANT
...official recognition by Cardinal Richelieu, the virtual ruler of France, in 1635-ordained that the English word "interview " shall hereafter be considered a good French word and incorporated in the new dictionary upon which work has been progressing for many years. Although the word "gentilhomme " exists in the French lexicon, it was recently decided to add the English equivalent "gentleman...
...passages will be very short and the translations are to be literal. The only question is to express in English what the writer said in Greek,--actually said! We care not what he thought on any collateral topics. Any Freshman who has well done preparatory Greek ought, with lexicon and grammar, to be able to do it. May I hear from any who are willing to try it? CHAS. W. SMILEY, A.M. 23 Milford St., Boston...
Professor Thayer was the author of several works, the most important being "The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible," "Books and Their Use," and "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New important translations of New Testament Grammer, and has contributed numerous articles to magazines on theological subjects...
...very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...