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In 1 89 1 he had begun serving as assistant 

 in Greek, and soon after receiving his Doc- 

 torate in Law he was given the chair of 

 Greek in the University (1899), at the same 

 time being Professor of the History of Peda- 

 gogy. At present (19 19) he is serving the 

 University as Professor, by competition, 

 of Linguistics and Philology. In 1901 he 

 was appointed Secretary of the Depart- 

 ment of Science and Letters of whose 

 official Reviewhe became Director in 1914, 

 this organ having been founded by the 

 joint labors of Dr. Dihigo and Dr. Aristides 

 Mestre. 



He founded in the University the Labora- 

 tory of Experimental Phonetics which 

 bears his name and, in association with 

 Dr. Mestre, an annual series of University 

 Extension lectures. Some of these lec- 

 tures he has himself delivered, all on more 

 or less popular subjects: " Influence of 

 Analogy in Language"; "Roosevelt's In- 

 fluence upon English Spelling " ; "The Bible 

 from the Linguistic Point of View"; Popu- 

 lar Speech in Literature "; " How to Know a 

 Country's History from its Money. " 



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