Word: linguistical
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...Library has just received four cases of books as a gift from the J. C. Ayer Company of Lowell. These books formed the library of the late Professor Marsigny, a linguist who had been in their employ for about twenty-five years. Professor Marsigny, who was a Belgian, served as a Catholic priest, first in Antwerp and afterwards in England, and was at one time a reader in the Vatican. Soon after coming to the United States, in 1872, he left the priesthood and married. While he was employed by the Ayer Company his principal work was that of translating...
...Strobel is an accomplished linguist, speaking French, German and Spanish, and having a good knowledge of Italian and Portuguese. He has written mainly dispatches and reports, the most important of which is a report on the resumption of specie payments in Chili...
John Patrick Brown of the class of '61, a member of the Suffolk bar, died suddenly Wednesday. Mr. Brown was a man of fine literary taste and an accomplished linguist. He has left a number of manuscript translations from the French and Spanish which will soon be published...
...Vollmer came to America from Belgium about 1867 and became professor of languages at Harvard. He was considered a remarkable scholar and linguist...
...term of his junior year, -"admonition for illegal dress." In his sophomore year eighteen members of the class received detours, but Sumner's name is not among them. At the junior exhibition (April 28, 1829) Frost, Andrews, and Sumner were assigned parts in a Greek dialogue, respectively as mathematician, linguist, and orator. Sumner in maintaining the superior claims of the orator was unconsciously some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes and Pericles...