Show academy there will be no Poly society this evening the number of adapt used since the beginning of the term is 35 L A large number of the students took advantage of thanksgiving holiday by visiting their homes in the surrounding settlements the largest audience we have seen at the Poly society this year assembled last friday evening to listen to prof maeyers Mae sers lecture un the origin and development of languages an outlined diagram of the subject was placed on the blackboard the speaker showed that all languages may be classed ander the three divisions first monosyllabic second agglutinate I 1 third inflectional in fact each one seems to go through the three different i stages the most civilized people at tins present time who speak a monosyllabic language am the chinese the reason they do this is that for 2000 years the laws of china have been opposed to changes of any kind not only in language lansu age but in the arts and sciences and all of their methods of performing labor it is the highest aim of a chinaman to become as wise as his forefathers the agglutinate language is spoken by the american indiana and some other classes in about the bame stage of civilization the leading nations of the world however arc the ones that have spoken inflectional lan grages the condition of the people of europe and america in contrast to that of those in asia and africa bears witness to this fact tho and the aryan are the two great divisions of this class to tho we are indebted for the old testament it having been written originally in the hebrew tongue the aryan includes the language by the european nations of today among which is the english the latter is alie youngest of all classic languages and in many respects the simplest it is undergoing changes at the present time and we may expect that this will continue until grammar will be one of the easiest and most delightful studies we can pursue |