Word: commons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...times is the change in opinion, first about things which can be possessed and second, about the extent of possession. Individual ownership in the Middle Ages was less complete than nowadays. Ownership was taken for use and special formalities were performed to make possessions secure. All land was the common property of anyone who could use it, sometimes gratis, sometimes for a trivial payment...
...owners of fields had no legal right to them except during the periods when crops were being raised and harvested. The rest of the time, the field was common property, and anyone might pasture cattle upon it. An owner could not sow his soil oftener than once in three years. No pasture land could be ploughed because by so doing it was ruined as pasture land. Cattle lived but did not prosper under this system...
...acted in 1611, was written mainly as a satire, holding up to ridicule the ranting, heroic plays so much in favor at the time, and the ignorant London burgesses who applauded them. Naturally, its butts condemned it on its first representation, but it was afterwards revived and became a common stage property during the seventeenth century. Later judgment has held it to be one of the most original of the Elizabethan comedies, both in its wit and biting satire upon the time, and its fantastic plot and humorous drawing of character...
JOINT MEETING OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE AND THE CLASSICAL CLUB. Professor Palmer. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...HARVARD DIVINITY CLUB. "The Claims of the Ministry on Young Men of Power." Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D. Common Room, Divinity Hall...