Word: pisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three long centuries ago, in the year 1590, there gathered in a little cathedral town, overlooking the rippling blue expanse that is the Mediterranean, a little group of most learned men. From France and Germany, and from Rome and Mycenae they had come to this, the little seaport of Pisa...
...which formed its University. Beyond, and nearer the sea, lay a brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost row of columns. Silence fell upon the waiting circle. Far above a bearded man in flowing...
Group Bologna, Italia, Turino, 52 men, Lowell House; Group Roma, Padova, 43 men, Dunster; Group Napoli, Perugia, 41 men, Adams House; Group Firenze, Pavia, 41 men, Leverett House; Group Pisa, Catania, 40 men, Kirkland Houses; Group Siena, Cagliari, 38 men, John Winthrop House; and Group Barl, Milano, 41 men, Eliot House...
...History of Italian Civilization is Gaetano Salvemini, who has been a visiting professor at several universities in England and America for the past few years, and was at Harvard during the second half of the past year. Professor Salvemini served as Professor of History in the Universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence from 1901 to 1925. Also continuing as Lecturer on Comparative Education is Robert Ulich who was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the Higher Technical School of Dresden. Dr. Ulich was in Cambridge during the second half of the past academic year and gave several public lectures...
Professor Salvemini is regarded as an authority on both the subject of his lectures and that of his seminar course. He has served as Professor of History in the Universities of Messina, Pisa and Florence from 1901 to 1925. Since that time he has been a visiting professor in England and America, where he has given lectures at Harvard in 1930, and at Yale...