Word: missions
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Dante's first great mission he said was the introduction of the common speech of the people into literature. Up to his time all European literature, with insignificant exceptions, was in Latin. But Dante chose the common tongue of Italy as the language of his sublime poems, and by that act the speech of the Italy speech was glorified forever. As the father of modern literature, then, Dante may rightfully be called the leader of the long line of writers who furnish the surest revelation of the races which have achieved the progress of the world during the last five...
...Howard Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, visited the University yesterday and was in the afternoon at Brooks House in consultation with men interested in foreign mission work...
Antonio Lubo, right guard, is 22 years old, weighs 175 pounds, and is 5 feet 11 inches in height. Last year he played right tackle. He is a Mission Indian from California...
...Lecture Room. His subject will be "Napoleon as a Financier." M. Martin is the charge de conferences of the Alliance Francaise in the United States. In France he is professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales, secretary of redaction of the "Revue d'Economic Politique" and charge de mission in the University of Paris. The lecture will be open to the public...
Among the visitors will be M. Cambon, the French Ambassador, General Brugere, chief of the special mission, Vice-Admiral Fournier, M. Croiset, dean of the Faculty of Letters of Paris, Lieutenant Colonel Meaux Saint Marc, personal representative of President Loubet, Count de Rochambeau, Count Sahune de la Fayette, Representatives of President Roosevelt, and the Countess de Rochambeau with four other ladies...