Word: versions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Iterum Iterumque" is a metrical version of the pure optimist's views...
...annual Christmas play presented by students of Boston college was "King Robert of Sicily," the dramatized version of Longfellow's poem of that name...
...which a long passage of Scripture was read and expounded. The freshmen were allowed to use English Bibles, but all the other students were required in the morning to read Hebrew from the Old Testament and translate into Greek and in the evening read an English or Latin version of the New Testament and translate into Greek, but this was only customary when the president conducted the service. This exercise was very distasteful to the students and in about 1700 they threatened rebellion, if the custom was not discontinued. On Sunday evening any one of the students might be called...
...Sargent prize will be awarded this year, as in the opinion of the judges no version of sufficient merit has been handed...
These courses cover valuable fields of knowledge which heretofore have been little traversed, except by special students. The King James version of the Bible, in particular, has never received the attention to which its peculiar literary merits entitle it. An attempt has been made to convince the public that as a translation it is a poor and inadequate piece of work. That question it is not worth while here to discuss; but it still bids fair to remain among the imperishable classics of our tongue. For its extraordinary merits as a piece of English place it above the rank...