Word: syriac
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 of the Apostles, brief sketches of the works and death of the Seventy and of the Twelve...
...second class studied prosody and dialects from 9 to 10 a. m., and practiced in "Poesy" after dinner; third year men did likewise in the theory and practice of Greek composition, prose and verse. (5) Thursday was devoted to the "Eastern tongues," with the theory of Hebrew, Chaldee and Syriac grammar in the morning, and practice in corresponding Bible texts in the afternoon. (6) Friday was given up to rhetoric. All students were taught the principles of rhetoric and were required to practice English composition and once a month declaim. (7) Saturday at eight o'clock in the morning...
Recitations and lectures were held from eight o'clock in the morning until four in the afternoon, three years being the original undergraduate course. The scriptures were carefully studied, and the ancient languages, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek and Latin, formed a large part of the curriculum. Besides this motley array of languages, mathematics, physics, astronomy, politics, ethics, logic, style, imitation, epitome and declamation were required branches. History formed a part of the regular work in winter, and was superseded by botany in the summer months. One cannot help being amazed at the thought of this vast array of learning being crammed...
Original poems in the Chaldean, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Syriac, Georgian, Cingalese, Greek, Latin, French, English, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Bohemian, Albanian, Danish and Italian languages were read in the halls of the Propaganda in Rome, last month, by the students. The occasion was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the celebration of the mass of the rector, Dr. Gustavo Courado...