Word: began
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Base ball practice at Princeton began last week. As yet none of last year's nine or substitutes have begun regular work, out many new men have handed in their names and are now practising daily in the cage. The work which the men will go through for some time to come will consist altogether in batting, and with this object in view the cage has been divided into four sections instead of two as heretofore...
...from the close corporations of the church hierarchies to the humblest of the people. Germany, and in fact most of the continental countries, had the Bible printed before England did. The first English Bible was printed in 1538. Before the great Reformation a sect arose called the Anabaptists and began a great missionary work. Some men in England adopted this faith and it is from these men that our New Englanders are descended. They went back to the simplicity which characterized the early times. With them ordination was by the congregation and this is the form which remains...
Last evening in Sever 11. Mr. Black delivered the second of his interesting course of lectures to a large audience. He began at the beginning of English Literature. likening its growth to that of a tree; and investigated when and where it first look root. In the following lectures he will show how the tree grew and leafed out gradually to us present size and proportions. The various periods of the English language are as follows: - before the Roman, the Roman, the Anglo Saxon, the Anglo Norman and English proper. The first of these was the subject of last evenings...
...Sargent is continuing the class in light gymnastics which he began last year, and has from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty every afternoon. This class, by the way, is an excellent thing for any who are not members of any team and do not desire to work by themselves. Just after Christmas there will be several classes begun in light tumbling, parallel bars, and flying rings. These classes are designed for beginners as well as for men who have already had practice...
...soon to a revival of the German heroic legends. The 12 century saw also the Celtic legends, which had come to be in Northern France the chief vehicles for conveying chivalric ideas, pass into Germany and became highly attractive to the Germans. Soon after narrative poetry after French models began in Germany, lyric poetry also began, showing the influence of both France and Provence. It seems to have appeared first along the upper Rhine, and at once showed itself subjective, metaphysical, chivalric. It had, however, from the start a purely German sentimental strain. The weariness and disenchantment of Walther...