Word: 17th
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Harvard in History. Harvard's influence and contribution will depend to some extent upon its contribution to the total of college graduates. In the 17th Century, beginning in 1642, Harvard's contribution was 100 per cent; Yale did not compete until 1702 and Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Princeton until the middle of the 18th Century; and the first of the great state universities until the middle of the 19th Century. But by 1870 the percentage of Harvard undergraduates to all students in American colleges had been reduced to 11.5 per cent; by 1910 to 6.4 per cent...
Samurai (Homel; Fine Arts Films] rivets the eye with its swift alternations of animal ferocity and morning calm. Like the prizewinning Gate of Hell (TIME, Dec. 13), this new Japanese film begins with a disordered 17th century battle piece: a flood of lance-waving horsemen surge across a meadow; agile warriors skip and pirouette in a whirling of two-handed blades; the defeated topple, with blood bursting between their clenched teeth. The struggle ends in far-off shouting as mists steal down from the mountains to draw a pale blanket over the slain...
...continent in the 17th century, it was not love at first sight, as is shown by the case of Roger Williams, who founded America's first Baptist church (though he abandoned the Baptist persuasion within a few months to become a "Seeker" or Independent). He landed in Boston in 1631, having come from England under the impression that he was a Puritan, but almost at once he was at loggerheads with Boston's Puritan clergy...
...16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained strength in the 17th century and after. * Some of the U.S.'s better-known Baptists: Harry S. Truman, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold Stassen, Billy Graham, Estes Kefauver. * For its adherents' frequent reference to "the old landmarks...
...origins of many nursery rhymes are shrouded in the fumes of taverns and mughouses, in a day when English ale and language were both stronger than they are now. How the songs got from the tavern to the nursery has never been quite clear, except that in the 17th and 18th centuries adults were far less squeamish about what was fit for children's ears than they are today. (Later, of course, many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging...