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HSS News-Spring 2011

David Caldwell

Message from the Dean

Greetings from the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. You’ll notice the ampersand prominently displayed in our newsletter, and there is a reason for this.

& has an interesting history, originating from cursive Latin in the first century, when the letters that spell the Latin conjunction et were written together. With the advent of printing during the Renaissance, the cursive ampersand was transformed into a logogram widely understood in the Western world as...Read more.

 

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