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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sentence of death, and as a result he escaped to France. There, and also in England, he has written and lectured extensively during the past five years on eastern European customs and governments. In his lecture tonight, Mr. Adossides will discuss the civil and financial misrule of Turkey, its secret service, press-censorship, and police, and will dwell on the decline of Turkish power as shown in the present state of the army and navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Club Lecture. | 1/27/1905 | See Source »

...result of the prominent position held by his father, the first Christian governor of Crete and Under-Secretary of State to the Sultan of Turkey, and because of his own intimate connection with that government, Mr. Adossides has very radical ideas in regard to the Turkish policy. In his lecture he will criticise the financial maladministration of Turkey, and its secret service and press-censorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on the Sultan. | 1/25/1905 | See Source »

Professor L. Wiener of the Slavic Department will give a lecture before the Sociedad Espanola at 8 o'clock this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union on "The Life and Literature of the Spanish Jews in Turkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wiener's Lecture Tonight. | 2/12/1904 | See Source »

After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 many of them went to Turkey, where they retained the Spanish language through writing it in Hebrew characters. From the descendants of these Jews it is possible to gain a far more accurate knowledge of fifteenth century Spanish than can be obtained in Spain. Professor Wiener spent the summer of 1898 in Turkey, investigating this old Spanish, and collected a number of songs which he will read and discuss tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wiener's Lecture Tonight. | 2/12/1904 | See Source »

...next meeting of the Sociedad Espanola, which will be held in the Assembly Room of the Union on February 12, at 8 o'clock, Professor L. Wiener will deliver an address on "The Life and Literature of the Spanish Jews in Turkey." On March 4 Senor Laureano Cortes, a graduate of Lehigh University in the class of 1889 and at present Cuban consul at Boston, will speak upon some topic of current interest. On March 25, Mr. J. Geddes '80, Professor of Romance Languages in Boston University, will speak on "La Actividad Literaria Reciente en Espana," and on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sociedad Espanola Meetings. | 1/28/1904 | See Source »

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