Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House recived the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England. The holder of this award, which is made annually by the Associated Harvard Clubs, will occupy the rooms at Emmanuel College in which John Harvard lived when he was a student there in the 17th century...
...general, Cabot, with his total investment assets of approximately $308,000,000 faces the same problems as the 17th century treasurer. Although dealing in bigger sums, he has confidence and security unknown in the precarious past, and this is the major difference...
Although Dunster upbraided the Commonwealth for its interference, one should remember that Massachusetts presented the struggling school with over $215,000 between its founding in 1936 and 1824. The surrounding municipalities were also very generous to the University during its fight for survival in the 17th century, with almost every New England town appearing on the roll of donors...
...plot. Because some of his finest locales are marred by modern improvements, he has assembled some 500 masking pieces: "You slap a proclamation over a Coca-Cola sign, cover light poles with trees, mask power lines with branches, introduce a coach-and-four and-whammo- you got a 17th century pastorale...
Whether a fine poetess (Selected Poems, 1935, What Are Years, 1941, Nevertheless, 1944} should have given up that much of her own writing life in homage to th 17th-century French fabulist is a question critics may well ask. Translator Moore's answer is ready and certain: "Compared with the fables, my own work is insignificant. No poet now living could have written them." By now, Poetess Moore is so soaked in the lessons learned the hard way by La Fontaine's zoo and barnyard folk that "subconsciously I live by his precepts...