Word: began
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring football squad at Yale began practice yesterday...
...Lathrop began by speaking of reforms of the last three hundred years and especially those of the present time. So much, he said, is seen and heard now of so-called reforms, accompanied as they are by demonstrations and commotion, that it may be profitable to go back to the twelfth century and learn the lessons taught by the life of the great reformer, St. Francis of Assisi...
...about the motive of nature there is still much to be said. The reformers in art tried hard to study and imitate nature, but more to raise the standard of art as regards correctness,than for the pure and simple love of the beautiful. But gradually painters began to study nature for itself, and to be less and less bound down by the wishes of the church...
With the opening of the fifteenth century the new movement for the revival of ancient art and literature began in earnest, and this movement found its most perfect expression in art. This was chiefly owing to the Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time...
...voting today is being done by secret ballot. It began at 9 o'clock and continued until 1 p. m., when the polls were closed for one hour. The balloting will stop at 5 o'clock. In the morning a very heavy vote was polled which was overwhelmingly in favor of the adoption of the new rules...