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- A Paradise Lost reading, in a Boston College Minute
- Inside the BC Studio with the poet Brendan Galvin '60
- "From Denial to Acceptance: Holy See–Israel Relations," a talk by Mordechay Lewy, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican
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In his first attempt at a truly American dictionary—A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1806 with 37,000 entries—Noah Webster (1758–1843) put forward new spellings he deemed more sensible than the old. Some stuck, such as jail for gaol and humor for humour. Some didn’t (including wimmen for women and soop for soup). On this foundation, he created An American Dictionary of the English Language, two volumes published in 1828 containing 70,000 entries. A first edition of this, his magnum opus, is on display through early December.
