Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never altogether died out, that the revival first took place. It may be said to have been begun early in the twelfth century with the study of Roman law. But it was not until two centuries later that Petrarch revived the study of the Latin classics. The promised land, however, of Greek antiquity he was only permitted to see from Pisgah. He could only weep over the Homer he could not read. The first Greek student of Western Europe was Boccaccio, and he was never more than a student. But at the close of the fourteenth century a really competent...
...College of William and Mary divides with Harvard the claim of antiquity on this continent. Seventeen days before the days of John Harvard, in 1619, money was raised and land appropriated for a college, when a massacre by the Indians prevented its establishment...
...have harassed the feelings of their readers by conflicting reports of success and defeat in the election. It will no doubt be a great relief to the excited public to find one journal which has preserved its former equanimity, which in the midst of the storm raging throughout the land, has remained cheerful and unmoved; one journal which has published no conflicting election returns, has issued no extra editions with false bulletins intended to keep up the excitement and a steady sale of the papers, but with a tender regard for the highly strung nerves of its readers has quietly...
...more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...
Although it is true there are few courts there is plety of land, especially around Divinity, which could be utilized for tennis. Then there are enough courts at present on the West End of Jarvis Field for a college tournament. On these courts the play might have been held and some interest would probably have been shown if it had been known that the tournament was to have been played there at certain hours of the day. However it is too late to do anything more as the tournament for singles has been finished. We only wish to call...