Word: 1880s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tutorials that involve no class work. Even freshmen are allowed to take ungraded seminars in which they develop their own study projects. And next fall Harvard (which has been vacillating between stressing electives and required courses ever since President Charles W. Eliot dropped nearly all required courses in the 1880s) will announce a swing back toward more electives for general-education freshmen...
...poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans but a pox on the face of the city. Set on the north side of the city just 20 blocks from the Loop, the neighborhood still had its solid old houses with the high-Victorian flare that had been built in the 1880s. But the solid burghers who built them had long since moved to the suburbs. And decay had left the streets lined with seedy bars and sleeping bums...
...1880s, the Vanderbilts, Astors and Oelrichses, with gold-plated silverware and shiploads of newly immigrated servants, invaded the quiet Rhode Island village of Newport, threw up enormous 50-room houses that rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...
...Southampton's first social resident was New York Society Doctor T. Gaillard Thomas, who went there in the 1880s and recommended it to his patients. Eventually, everyone in the upper registers of society followed him. There were the Mellons, the Thaws and the Dilworths from Pittsburgh, the Du Fonts from Delaware, the Morgans and the Murrays from New York. Aside from such "cottages" as the $700,000 mansion that Henry Ford II built, residents support five separate clubs, including the Meadows, which boasts 30 grass tennis courts. Some of the houses and some of the courts have gone to seed...
...whatever method they were broken, good mustangs made good riding horses-some of them, in fact, displayed undeniable genius. In the 1880s, the authors report, a horse in Texas was trained to run backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...