Cornell University Announcements - 1922 Author:Cornell University Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: COURSES OF INSTRUCTION AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDY The courses outlined in the following pages are grouped primarily on the basis of subject ma... more »tter. Under each subject there is usually given, in a separate paragraph, a list of courses which are probably too elementary in character to interest graduate students of that subject. There then follows a list of all those courses which, whether open or not open to undergraduates, are deemed likely to be of profit to graduate students. More detailed information concerning any one of these various courses (time and place of meeting, and in the case of a few courses given in alternate years, whether or not offered in 1922-23, etc.) will be found in the separate announcement of the college in which the particular course is given. The latest editions of these special announcements of the .various colleges may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the University. SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AND ORIENTAL HISTORY Professor: Nathaniel Schmidt. Special facilities for advanced work in these subjects are: (1) a collection of several hundred squeezes of inscriptions found in Syria and Arabia Petraea, chiefly in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Assyrian, Nabataean, and Greek; (2) squeezes of Old Egyptian, Coptic, and Hittite inscriptions; (3) a collection of several thousand photographs taken in Syria and Arabia Petraea and slides taken from these photographs; (4) reproductions of inscriptions and objects of art in the Museum of Casts; (5) a valuable collection of Arabic, Hebrew, Samaritan, Ethiopic, and Coptic manuscripts secured in Syria; (6) the Eisenlohr Library, especially rich in Egyptology; (7) the Fiske collection of Arabic books; (8) a growing collection of Egyptian antiquities. To the candidate for an a...« less