Word: phoenician
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...post-graduate courses given in Harvard and announced last year as open to Radcliffe students, the following do not appear on this year's list: Phoenician 10, English 17, German 20a, German 20b, German 20c, Pedagogical Seminary, Government 12, Mathematics 9, Mathematics 22, and Mathematics 23. In the Department of Classical Philology, courses 25, 52, 54, 39, 51, 49. Those which are announced in this year's pamphlet, and which were not in last year's, are: Ethiopic 9, Germanic Philology 21, French 20c, Philosophy 13, History 16, Government 6, Music 5, Music 6, Mathematics 11, Mathematics...
...changes have been made in the Semitic department; Professor Toy will give his course upon the Bagdad Califate instead of the Spanish Califate; the course in Ethiopic will be omitted and in place will be given a course in Phoenician by Professor Toy and Mr. Reisner. The course in Semitic grammar will not be given, but two courses of research in Assyrian have been added...
...courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seem imposing enough to satisfy the most confirmed specialists, furnishing, as they do, instruction in such out-of-the-way languages as Ethiopic, Phoenician, Pali, Gothic, Icelandic, Old Saxon, etc. There is however no course in Celtic. Is it not possible to have one at Harvard? A knowledge of old Welsh, Gaelic and Celtic is important for those who study mediaeval literature and seek to trace the origin of various myths and legends which have been woven into the romances of old French and German. Courses in the field suggested would...
...Bagdad Califates. These courses, involving no knowledge of Semitic languages, are of greatest interest to the general student of history, although he may not be a specialist in Semitic studies. For the specialists, it will be seen that several new courses have been provided, including a course in the Phoenician language...
...employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions. The Egyptians had the first real alphabet, real in the sense of having a sign for each letter. Babylonian and even Arabic have signs for only three of their vowel sounds. The Phoenician people in their commercial relations and in their position as intermediaries between the great nations of the earth, were the first to make a script that was extensively used in the world. Without exception all alphabets have been developed in one way or another from the Phoenician. As to the origin...