Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent meeting of the American Oriental Society in Philadelphia, was one of great interest to orientalists and laymen alike. Harvard professors figured conspicuously in the gathering as well as other representative scholars from many parts of the country...
...life of the Arabian poets was like that of the medixval troubadours. The minstrels wandered from place to place, and sang their own poems to intelligent and critical audiences at public gatherings. Trials of skill were frequent, and great rewards fell to the share of the victor...
...time of Mohammed, Semitic thought, as an active motive power in literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning...
...Great interest is manifested in these games as many noted athletes from England, America and Canada are to compete...
...Amateur Athletes, a committee consisting of Messrs. G. A. Avery, H. Mapes, H. Pike and T. A. McEwan was selected to make arrangements for the team of American athletes which will visit Europe next summer. The team will be composed of the winners of the eighteen events at the great National Amateur Association meeting to be held on the grounds of the Manhattan Athletic Club, in New York city, the week before the intercollegiate games. The month of June will be spent in the trip across the ocean and in contests at Cork, Belfast, Dublin, Hudderslield, Manchester, Stourbridge...