Word: eighteenth
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...czar was a czar and a serf a serf, History 155b starts with mystic Alexander 1 and continues until the debacle of 1917 marked the end of all good things. The errant anglonmle may emerge from the Stuart era to listen to Professor Brower disuss in Sever 31, eighteenth century poetry, from Dryden to Wordsworth...
...most the "natural intellectual union" of the disciplines has remained the chief justification for the existence of History and Lit. Perkins, for example, "cannot see how Shakespeare could have written as he did at any other time or place." The writings of Swift, he says, are "redolent of the eighteenth century...
...never quite understood why their case did not elicit more sympathy in the United States. The principles for which they fight, self-determination and freedom from colonial rule, have in the past been pre-eminently associated with the U.S., they argue. They are fond of drawing parallels between the eighteenth-century struggle of Americans to throw off British rule and their own efforts today. They strongly resent American use of the word "terrorists" to refer to EOKA, declaring that this group is the Cypriot equivalent of our own "Minute...
Several factors make such an interesting showdown unlikely. Not the least is the political power of Southern education lobbies, whose sponsors would lose their bread and butter. Also more and more citizens are seeing a greater danger in postponing education, much less setting it back to the Eighteenth Century, than in sending their children to school with negroes. Their position is shared by most moderates. It will attract some who are tempted to provoke the show-down, but fear it would result in decisive restriction rather than reaffirmation of the independent spheres of life...
Science then meant Aristotelian science, even though the Copernican system had been adopted by the 1660's. There were no laboratories until the eighteenth century, and the only piece of scientific apparatus the College owned until that time was a telescope presented by Governor Winthrop...