Word: rich
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rise of its poetry. Among the peculiarities of Arabic poetry is a law which requires writers to begin all kinds of poems with praise of his sweetheart. Arabian histories are very tiresome, for every writer begins his history with the beginning of the world. The language is rich in fiction and the "Thousand and One Nights" is the greatest story book in the world...
...Home Library"; there is a sailors' mission where Harvard students may be found Sundays, and a "Prospect Union," where men who have toiled all day meet at night to study, and Harvard students are their teachers. They devote time and strength to these, but they say nothing: Silently the rich have given of their abundance to their classmates, who, in the struggle for an education, have had also to win their bread. Many a man, almost despairing in the struggle, has taken heart at a gift that came he knew not whence. "I must do this, at least," the giver...
...Rich, who has heretofore been directing the training of the team by correspondence, will now begin riding with it himself...
...Rich, '96, "The Lament of Oedipus," Sophocles...
...Manuel de Mendoza, Alcayde of Seville, noble of birth, but meek of manner, E. W. Rich...