Word: moorish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Jehudah Halevi was born in Spain in 1085 during the period of high Moorish civilization when that country was the only one in which the persecuted race was tolerated. There the Jews held the balance of power. Owing to this toleration he received an excellent education and became a cultured man. He was a physician and philosopher with a charming personality, thoroughly balanced poetic temperament, and a keen imagination. The suffering of his race during the crusades gave form and thought to his poetical power, and he was so impressed with the fact that the function...
...Sales prize of $45 has been awarded to Howard Farlowe Kent Cahill '10, of Cambridge, for a translation into Spanish of a passage from the Moorish Chronicles of Washington Irving. The judges were President Lowell, Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, and Mr. G. L. Lincoln...