Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Louis Hjelmslev of the University of Copenhagen, will present a public lecture on the scientific work of Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask at 8 p.m. tonight in Allston Burr Hall, Lecture Room...
...John Home Tooke, philologist,* scholar and political agitator, was moved to such indignation at the sacrifices which had taken place on the battlefields of Lexington and Concord that he launched in London a public subscription in behalf of "our beloved American fellow subjects." Result: he was fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered...
...were many among the new generation of Bolsheviks who thought that Russian was good enough for them. A learned controversy in Pravda last month aired views for & against the Marr theory. Last week Stalin personally ended the argument with an 8,000-word statement on language. He was no philologist himself, Stalin admitted modestly, but he was, he thought, an authority on "Marxism within philology...
...dialects, patois, and minority languages. The gist of Stalin's wordy, labyrinthian message was that "the Russian language has remained in the main the same as it was before the October upheaval . . . Language is created for the purpose of serving society as a whole . . . [Language] is all-national." Philologist Stalin savagely denounced Marr as a vulgarizer of Marxism, called him arrogant, alien, and demanded the liquidation of the "Marr clique" as saboteurs...