Word: seth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Seth Low of Columbia College delivered the oration on Manhattan Day at the Atlanta Exposition...
From the Indian originals the stories came down through the Sanskrit Panchatantra, the Tibetan, the Lost Pehlevi, 550 A. D., to the Arabic and Old Syriac. From the Arabic there were many effluxes, the Later Syriac, and through that the English of Keith-Falconer; the Greek of Symeon Seth and from that the Latin of Possinus; the Hebrew of Rabbi Joel and from that the "Directorium," by John of Capua, from which comes the "Buch der byspel der alten Wysen," and the "Moral Philosophia" by Doni, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1570. from the Arabic...
...Lehigh University Club of the City of New York will give a dinner in honor of Dr. Thomas N. Drown, the new president of the university, at the Hotel Brunswick on the evening of Oct. 25. Among those who will be present are Seth Low, president of Columbia College, and General Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...trustees of Columbia College have voted to place a suitable tablet in the new library given by President Low, in commemoration of the gift, and to establish a professorship in history, to be know as the "Seth Low" Professorship of American History...
...Boston paper published yesterday morning a casual reference to a gift of $60,000 for Harvard from the Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia college. The gift, it was said, was to be used for scholarships. Up to a late hour last night no official information had been received on the subject, but the truth of the matter will undoubtedly be made known today...