Word: version
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, it was unanimously decided to found a chair of Hebrew Literature in the college, in which the Aramaic Version of the Bible with the Talmud and Hebrew grammar should be taught. A gift of $300 has already been received for the establishment of this chair...
...know English would do well to put themselves, as it were, by proxy, in the same favorable surroundings; let alone the mastery of technique - that can be gained from a study of such masters of style as the author of "Gringoire" (Booth, by the way, used to act a version of this play) - or of Bossuet - or of one of the writers not included in the readings Aside from this advantage there is the profit and the pleasure which new aspects bring to those who but rarely deign to look at the world through eyes other than their...
...muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...
...following prizes have been awarded from the gift of John O. Sargent for medical version of the second epode of Horace: To Charles Isham, A. B., of the graduate department, a prize of fifty dollars. To Thomas Buford Metepard, special student, a prize of twenty five dollars. To Robert Cameron Rogers, A. B., Yale College, special student in Law School, a prize of twenty-five dollars. Judges: Prof. Greenough, Prof. J. B. Thayer, and T. W. Higginson...
...following is a cowboy's version of Mark Antony's speech: "Members of the family, relatives and friends, I didn't come here to talk, I'm on business. I'm an undertaker...