Word: came
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...From Marco Polo to Columbus the explores of the fifteenth century were discovering the worked; and the discovery of man is evidenced by the awakening of the human spirit from the sleep of the Middle Ages to human individuality and a vital sense of man's dignity. With this came also an awakened interest in the Latin authors. Following Petrarch's discovery of some of Cicero's correspondence came the discovery of the remainder by Niccoli, who was the founder of textual criticism. Poggio, a Papal secretary, was the discoverer of many Latin manuscripts, and by 1433, a century after...
Senor Yturralde is a native of Navarre, Spain, and a graduate of Sos in Aragon, He has travelled extensively through South America, where he visited the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Brazil. He came to the United States about a year and a half ago to learn English, and is now professor of Spanish in the Boston Academy of Languages, and secretary of El Club Espanol in Boston...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee on February 17, the proposition to engage Mr. Reid as football coach for next year came up for discussion. The Committee felt that although they were desirous of obtaining Mr. Reid's services they were not willing to pay a coach a salary higher than that received by a professor in the University. It was accordingly voted to offer him $3,500. However, as this sum would not defray the extraordinary expenses necessarily incurred by him, the Committee decided that if the graduates should choose to make good his losses they would not oppose such...
...thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East; and great commercial natons, such as Venice, came into prominence. While the empire in Europe was slowly going to pieces, Rome was futilely endeavoring to form a united Christian empire, not national but European...
Berea College, situated in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, is an institution for the education of the negroes, and more especially the "poor whites" of the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains, the stock from which Abraham Lincoln came. It is endeavoring to do for the people of that region what the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes are doing for the negroes in the south...