Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chair in Slavic...
...instructor in Russian, Leo Wiener, lately assistant professor in the University of Minnesta, has been secured. Born in Poland, and graduated at a Polish university, he is especially well fitted for the position. Besides being a scholar of wide attainments, he is particularly well versed in the slavic languages...
...notice with pleasure the appointment of Mr. Leo Wiener as instructor in the Slavic Languages. It seems singular that as yet the Russian language has scarcely been taught at all in any American institution of learning, although Russia is the largest and one of the most important of European nations. It is gratifying that Harvard has taken the initiative in this direction. The appointment will doubtless lead to the establishment of a regular professorship in the slavic languages...
...only large addition by gift is a set of books and pamphlets in the Slavic languages, given by Dr. A. C. Coolidge, numbering 2,523 volumes in all. They are for the most part Russian, and have been distributed through the various departments of History and Literature...
...library gains some 5,000 volumes yearly by purchase, and about the same number by gift, and although the two batches in which the Slavic books were received were the only large additions, yet the smaller donations have brought the number of volumes up to the average. These books were on various subjects, so that no department or collection has made any marked advance over the others...