Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intellectual materials available for the latter. The reconquest was slow. Under these conditions art was slow to start. Hence Spain was not one of the poetically fecund nations of the Middle Ages. The earliest literature we have in the vulgar Spanish tongue belongs to the end of the 12th century, - a century later than the earliest French literature of moment. In the very earliest monument of Spanish, poetry that has come down to us, the Poem of the Cid, we see plainly the influence of French models, as least upon form. And this impression is strengthened by the earliest lyric...
...freshman musical clubs will give a concert at Malden on March 12th...
...Athletic Club will hold open scratch games on March 12th in Winslow Rink. The entry blanks have not yet been printed, but the programme will consist of these events: 50 yard flat dash, 50 yard high hurdle, one mile walk, one mile run, putting 16 pound shot, pole vault, running high jump, and running high kick...
GENTLEMEN: - At a meeting held in Cambridge on the 12th of the current month by the members of the Faculties of Arts and Sciences, Law and Divinity who presented a memorial to the President and Fellows of Harvard College on the 25th of May, 1891, urging the suppression of the Dudleian Lecture against Catholicism, it was voted to communicate to the President and Fellows the following statement...
...began by emphasizing the importance of comparing the present confusion in the forms of art, education and religion, with its growth and development from the Middle Ages. When the fall of the Roman Empire took place, all civilization and culture was enveloped in darkness. From that time until the 12th or 13th century, the whole world was undergoing a complete revolution, as far as civilization was concerned. The skepticism and superstition which had played so important a part in the fall of the Roman Empire, was superseded gradually by the religion of the Christians, During the period from...