Word: owned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The 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.
At the 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...
Until abuses are stopped there is no other way than continually to harp upon them, and it is with this in mind that we again call attention to the use of reserved books in the library. Far too often complaints are made that books supposed to be reserved are nowhere...
Few colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence...
Fifthly: Yale claims that under the foot-ball constitution, Yale and Harvard must play in New York this year, inasmuch as they were respectively first and second in the league last year. It is asserted that if Harvard refuses to play in New York, she breaks the constitution, and therefore...