Word: padua
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...another case is a profusely illuminated diploma with which the University at Padua conferred the degree of Ph.D. upon Giacomo Pasquall on December 18, 1656. It contains a picture of the successful scholar together with a representation of his coat of arms, all surrounded by the most colorful decoration...
...gypsies, journeyed to Milan. His ticket was paid for by 600 U. S. gypsy families, who desired to see the old queen with a grandson and the young king with a wife. But in Milan, Italy, the women were not as his mother had said. "Go to Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl, the Princess Paras Kevi. Last...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was the most celebrated follower of St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...taking his degrees at Caius College, Cambridge, Dr. Conway became a fellow of that College. Later he was appointed as classical lecturer at Newnham College, and from 1893 to 1903 was professor of Latin at University College Cardiff. He has received honorary degrees from the universities of Dublin and Padua, and in 1918 was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Conway is at present Governor of the British Institute of Florence, and an external Examiner in Latin to the University of Durham...
Every American college is "old" So-and-So; but age, like everything else, is relative. A centennial or semi-centennial commemoration fills us with piety and a sense--of antiquity. Some college old folks on the other side have a different standard of age. In 1922 the University of Padua kept the anniversary of its seven hundredth birthday. This month the University of Naples has been doing the same. St. Thomas Aquinas, a student there for six years, is its most illustrious graduate. On the six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, which happened to be the two hundredth...