Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear Sirs-We wish to challenge the Connecticut Club to a joint debate on some subject of mutual interest. The undersigned have been appointed by the Pennsylvania Club with full power to arrange such a debate, and would be pleased to consult with a similar committee from the Connecticut Club at an early date...
...chief interest of the meeting was, however, Semitic. Several of the young Assyrian scholars presented papers of more or less value. The novelty of this subject, the vistas which it opens into times until now considered prebistoric, the revelations which it makes of great and long vanished peoples, the important relations to the scientific study of the Old Testament, all make the Assyrian a source of unfailing interest. The Biblical student in particular would be pleased by the paper from Prof. Haupt, of Baltimore, determining the size of the boat in which, according to the Babylonian account, the hero...
Professor Toy, of Cambridge, gave a scholarly paper on the Arabian dialect of Cairo, embodying the results of a study made of the subject during a residence in Egypt last winter. A very instructive paper was presented by Professor Frothingham, of Princeton, on Mohammedan education, whose most perfect developement is seen in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries of our era. This development was largely due to impulses from without. The range of study was comprehensive and instruction was free. Professor Hall, of New York, gave an account of a Syriac manuscript containing a new text of the Traditions...
...most important features in connection with the recent meeting was a reception tendered by Dr. Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The first part of the evening was devoted to discussing the subject of Semitic study in America. Among the speakers were Professors Toy and Lyon of Cambridge, Professor Green, of Princeton, and Professor Harper, of Yale. It is understood that the addresses are to be published in a pamphlet, and it is hoped that they may excite a yet greater interest in the important topic to which they relate...
...paper. Although the report published was the best that could be had under the circumstances, there are many inaccurate statements made in it. It would be difficult to correct these sufficiently without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely wrong impression the accounts of the Boston papers seem to have given those who did not see the game, it may be well to state that although the Harvard team was outplayed, it gave Princeton a terribly hard struggle...