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Professor Toy of the Semitic department lectured on the alphabet yesterday afternoon in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. He said that nothing seems simpler to us than forming words and indicating sounds by letters but that the analysis of even the shortest words is hard to make. Until lately it has been universally thought that the formation of an alphabet was a task beyond human power to perform, and the Talmudic Jews claimed that the letters were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, by God. It is only in the last part of the present century that the alphabet has been...
Professor Toy concluded his lecture with the exhibition of some lantern views of hieroglyphics and sign-language which he fully explained...
Monotheism. Lecture. Professor Toy. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...MONDAY.The Alphabet (illustrated). Lecture. Professor Toy. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
SEMITIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION.A course of four lectures will be given by Professor Toy on Semitic Contributions to Civilization. The subjects are: The Alphabet, February 24; Monotheism, February 28; Sacred Books, March 3; The Jews in Modern Life, March 7. In the Jefferson Laboratory...