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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...displayed during the period during which it is held, will be duly considered. The examinations will take place at any college which the candidate chooses among the number of institutions which help to support this school. Upon the following subjects will be based the main part of the examinations: Modern Greek, The Elements of Greek Epigraphy, Introduction to Greek Archeology, Greek Architecture, Sculpture and Vases, Pausanias, and the Monuments and Typography of Ancient Athens...
...call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were not so deep and lasting as those of French on English. The name Romance, often...
...literary work or for pronunciation. The dialects that were spread over France at this time were so many separate developments of vulger Latin. Among them was one, that of Paris, that was destined to become the standard of literary French. The differences between Norman French and this ancestor of modern French are so few and unimportant that they can be ignored. Thus, when we consider the language of Normandy at this time, we need only take into account the ancestor of modern French...
Beside the open and closed sound of e, as in modern French, there was still a third sound in old French, about which we can only theorize. It may have been like one of the other two except in length...
...apparent diphthongs in modern French, ai, ei, eu, ou and au, were pronounced separately in old Frence. Exception must be made in this case to au, for it does not appear in old writings, although it may have existed in speech. The sound oi, which seems so eminently English, is in reality of old French origin...