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Tobias George Smollett, the doctor who looked at an dwrote about various aspects of life of the eighteenth century, was born in Dumbartonshire, a Scotch county in the year 1721. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a surgeon of Glasgow, but three years later, following the example of Thomson, set forth for England with his first and worst literary venture "The Regicide...
...about 1421, at the age of 19, Masaccio, principally noted at the time for his slovenly dressing and deportment, was enrolled in the gild of druggists in Florence and three years later following out a great inclination for the arts of design which he had showed from childhood, he joined the gild of painters...
...second time a widow, and with his younger brother, a painter of no distinction; he possessed nothing but debts. Before the end of the next year, he disappeared from Florence, going, as it would appear, to Rome, to evade the importunities of creditors. Immediately afterwards, in 1429, when his age was 27 or 28, he was reported dead...
After 1806 the Congregational church became rather a Unitarian church, but attendance was still obligatory until Charles W. Eliot became president of Harvard in 1869 and began the university's modern age. Dr. Eliot did not believe in attendance at religious services under compulsion; but here, as elsewhere, he had to labor against a powerful tradition, and it was not till the 250th anniversary of the university, in 1886, that chapel attendance was made voluntary...
...Harvard's religion is a religion of and for the individual, if he wants it. If it may seem to some outsiders that not many Harvard men want it, one must remember that Harvard, even in this blatant age, cherishes the rare virtue of understatement. At any rate, the choice is the business of the individual