Word: 1760s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this period the Corporation was expanding Harvard into the research and teaching institution we see today, and taking greater interest in the University's finances. Hollis, Massachusetts, and Harvard Halls all rose in the 1760s, and the colonial College was on the way to becoming a true University...
Such hoaxes were outrageous enough to make their perpetrators seem almost dignified in their raffishness. But forgeries have regularly caused more than empty pockets and red faces. One cut short a poetic career full of brilliant promise. In the 1760s, Thomas Chatterton, a teen-ager from Bristol, England, invented a 15th century monk called Thomas Rowley and wrote medieval-looking manuscripts of inspired poetry under the name. He had hoped to demonstrate his skills under a false identity and then reveal himself as the author when the public's attention was won. Before that could happen, the ruse...
...small, ornately bound volume yielded" a special electricshock," says Bond, turning it over in his hands. He discovered immediately that it was one of the books given to Harvard in the 1760s by Thomas Hollis V "That's why this has been a good career," says William Bond
Since 1759, when the Wedgwood firm was founded, many people have found it a superb investment. Its backstraps, first applied in the 1760s, first indicated Wedgwood's value as a collector's item. The popularity of the ornamental pieces evolved with changes in taste: the baroque and rococo styles were began to give way in the 18th-century to more classical designs, as a result of the discoveries in both Greece and Italy. Lord Wedgwood himself only collects contemporary pieces. He explains, "I really don't like living in a museum-type atmosphere. All the pieces I have are very...