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(Vol. 23—No. 200)
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Seth M. Vining, Editor
C.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1950
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Weather Friday: High 72, low
52; Saturday high 68, low 37, rain
.01; Sunday high 56, low 26. . .
What a week in store for us!
Masons tonight and the farewell
reception for Rev. F. W. Murtfeidt.
Kiwanis Tuesday at 1. Ladies’
night for the Lions at Oak Hall
with Shelby Club putting on pro
gram at 7:30. And the Wildlife
Club meets at Mill Spring. Wed
nesday, another double-header with
St. Agnes Guild Bazaar opening
at 11 o’clock at the Parish House
and then at 3 o’clock at the nearby
Congregational Church House, Ar
thur Stupka, the Smoky Mountain
National Park naturalist, will
speak for the Garden Club, but the
public is invited without special
invitation. Roderick Peattie writes
of Stupka in the introduction of
his book, ‘The Great Smokes” . .
“Stupka’s reputaton as a scientist
is well founded. He has a rare
quality of popularizing his science;
In addition, he likes people and his
headquarters at Gatlinburg is al
ways at your disposal.” Stupka
wrote Peattie, “I am doubly for
tunate, for my outdoors laboratory
is not only a naturalist’s paradise,
but the sort of people with whom
I come in contact are the finest in
the world.” And Peattie says: “and
so writing confesses his own
character” . . . Thursday night
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OLD STUFF AT ROTARY
Dr. William Frank Bryan gave
Rotarians another example on Fri
day that “there’s nothing new un
der the sun” and showed in 20
minutes how present day langu
age goes back also 4,500 years
for its origin.
In his talk at Oak Hall, the
former head of Northwestern Uni
versity’s English department trac
ed the development of the language
as we know it today back to 2500
BC and gave an interesting and
comprehensive outline of how some
oresent day words such as “broth
er” and “three” got that way in
that course of time.
Stating that there are 6 major
and 3 minor segments in the
genealogy of the English langu
age, Dr. Bryan detailed them as
Germanic, Celtic, Baltic-Slavic,
Romance, Greek and Indo-Iranian
for the principal steps. The minor
ones were given as Armenian,
Albanian and Tocharia'n.
It was interesting to note the
similarity over 4,500 ’ years of
human usage of words that are
used today- in almost their origin
al form. Spellings varied, usually
because of the differences in basic
structure of the language under
consideration. Essentially, however,
many b&sic English words used in
1950 have approximately the same
sounds as those used 45 Centuries
ago.
“The Russian langtfage,” said
Dr. Bryan, “is really-a first cousin
of our own. It dates back to 850
AD and has many words very
similar to ours.” And the speak
er pointed out that curiously
enough, the Russian alphabet was
developed by a missionary bishop
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