Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fitted to the conditions of student life. Professor Peabody emphasized the value of the recent development of charity work among the students in bringing into real unity the various moral, religious and benevolent activities of the University. He expressed the belief that the movement was bringing to a real fruition the purposes set forth in the meeting at Sanders Theatre last fall when the present form of the enterprise was inaugurated...
...Winsor stands perhaps without a peer among American historians and on account of recent research is especially well qualified to speak on Columbus. He began by crediting to the ancient Greeks cosmographical study which found its fruition in the 15th century. Had Carthage triumphed over Rome we might sooner have known the secrets of the Atlantic, but after all it is to the descendants of the Romans, Columbus, Vespucsi Verrizaro and John Cabot that we are indebted for the discovery of America...