Word: 1770s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has not always been so aloof to the cause of the patriots. Like those of Massachusetts, Harvard's ties to England were stretched thin in the 1770s and by 1775 had snapped. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 recounts in his seminal 1936 work Three Centuries of Harvard how "on April 19... six scholars marched off with the Minutemen" and in a footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial...
...course will "examine selected masterworks of chamber music from the 1770s, when the distinctive timbres ofBaroque instruments shaped composers'imaginations, to the beginning of the 20thcentury," according to the official description...
...1770s, British physician Edward Jenner began noticing a strange phenomenon...
...sure, predated the Industrial Revolution: during the 16th century, one Jack of Newbury employed more than 500 men, women and children at a plant in Berkshire, England. But the true father of the modern factory, most historians agree, was Richard Arkwright, who in the late 1760s or early 1770s installed several water-powered cotton-spinning machines at a workshop in Cromford. Thousands more installations were to follow...