Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either History or English and it has well deserved to do so. Its positive merits are strong -- and its negative merits are not to be disregarded. For any man who wants to study English literature without having to know at what o'clock the illegible of a third-rate eighteenth century dramatist was born, or who wants to study history without going through the well wastes of Government 1 and Economic A, the department of History and Literature is a gift from the Gods...
...Governor Ely's plan to force Massachusetts to be the first to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is unseemly in view of the grave consequences and responsibility involved," declared A. J. Davis, head of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, in an interview last night...
...striking contrast to Mr. Davis's statements were the remarks made by Maleolm Greenough '25, of crusader's, Inc., on of the outstanding repeal organizations. VI heartily endorse Governor Ely's desire to have Massachusetts the first state to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. It is most encouraging to those interested in repeal to find the enactment by Congress coming so unexpectedly...
...English drama of the Eighteenth Century," Professor Murray, Harvard...
...most willfully tough-minded moods, Professor Becker works within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations...