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...like the College Conferences, informal, conversational and open only to members of the university. They will be held each week during a greater part of the year and will be conducted by a large number of the Faculty, including some of the Board of Preachers and Professors Everett, Toy, Thayer, Palmer, Peabody, Wright and others. The address by Professor Harper this evening is on the same subject on which he will contribute his valuable suggestions and advice. His progressive scholarship, and his great success both in teaching the Semitic languages and in leading college men to a more thorough study...
...attention of the students of the university, and all others interested in Oriental history and language, is called to the new Semitic circular, which has just been issued under the direction of Professors Toy and Lyon. As will be seen by examining the same it is the most comprehensive schedule of Semitid studies offered in any American university. The attention of undergraduates is particularly called to the courses in history, which include the English Bible and the Spanish and Bagdad Califates. These courses, involving no knowledge of Semitic languages, are of greatest interest to the general student of history, although...
...endeavoring to have a course established in general study of the Bible. This object may not be attained next year on account of other arrangements, but it is probable that a course of evening conferences will be given by Professors Lyon and Toy on the Old Testament, Professor Thayer on the New Testament, Professor Everett on comparative religions, and Professor Peabody...
...feared by some that the Jews will soon attain too great a power in the world by reason of their vast riches but this was thought by Professor Toy to be a cause for little fear. It is true that there is a certain antagonism to, and prejudice against, the Jews but this is gradually vanishing. Then, too, it must be remembered that the Christians were the ones responsible for the degraded position of the Jews in the Middle Ages, since they were at that time forbidden to own lands and were thus driven to be traders. It has been...
...conclusion Professor Toy said that he hoped and thought that the antagonism between the Jews and Christians was becoming less and less, for the antagonism has always been due to prejudice and prejudice cannot help but be destroyed by advancing years...