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...advancement of Hebraic culture and ideals,' and the movement has since spread to 51 colleges in the United States and Canada, where active chapters are carrying on the work. In past years such men as President Eliot, Dean Briggs, Professor G. F. Moore '06, Jacob H. Schiff of New York, Justice Louis D. Brandeis '77, and others have spoken...
Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department, contributes a volume on "Personality in German Literature before Luther." This book contains six lectures delivered in 1915 at the Lowell Institute and subsequently under the Jacob H. Schiff Foundation at Cornell. Its main them is the rise and spread of individualism, together with an attempt to trace in the various forms of literary and intellectual life of the centuries preceding the Reformation a steady line of transition from aristocratic to democratic conceptions of personality...
...Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens '03, personal representative of Granville Barker, has arrived in Boston, and will immediately assume active charge of the production of "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Trojan Women" in the Stadium on May 18 and 19. "These plays have not the cold and lifeless setting which so many people attribute to the Greek drama," said Mr. Saint-Gaudens, when questioned as to the character of the productions...
During the past three years the Harvard Semitic Museum, with the financial support of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, has been excavating the ruins of Samaria, the capital of Israel. The site is so extensive that less than one-twentieth part has been excavated in three years' work. The chief aim of the operations, the recovery of remains from the Hebrew period, was reached in the second and third years. The objects found in 1908 were mainly of the Greek and Roman periods, the most important being a marble statue (probably Angustus), a large altar, and an imposing stairway. Professor Lyon...
...expenses of this Palestinian work have been borne by Jacob H. Schiff, the founder of the Semitic Museum. The Egyptian work is being carried on this winter at the Pyramid of Zawiet-el-Aryan under C. S. Fisher, a student in the Graduate School in 1908-09, and Oric Bates '05. Efforts are now being made to raise money to continue the work in Palestine...