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...trace the history of the English language back to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SHELDON'S LECTURE. | 11/14/1895 | See Source »

...Anglo-Saxon," by Professor George T. Dippold, on Tuesdays and Fridays, room 22, Rogers, beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL FREE LECTURES. | 10/22/1895 | See Source »

...Anglo-Saxon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Growth of the Summer School. | 9/25/1895 | See Source »

...Were the Anglo-Saxon guilds founded on any older institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English C. | 2/20/1895 | See Source »

...When Henry Adams was teaching Ancient Law at Cambridge in my day, he used to say that one of the inalienable privileges of the early Anglo-Saxon was the right to kill his neighbor. That privilege you have nobly foregone. You have shown that a hard tackle does not necessarily involve, as a matter of conscience and patriotic duty, the breaking of a collar bone; and you left your opponents life enough to finish the game and limbs enough to get back to Cambridge. For this old John Harvard thanks you from the bottom of his grateful heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL REFORM. | 2/15/1895 | See Source »

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