Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first three academic years were devoted to studying Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. In addition, freshmen studied arithmetic; sophomores, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; juniors, natural science; and seniors, ethics and philosophy. Oratory and some history were taught all classes, and the textbooks were written in either Latin or Greek...
...only close match was between number two man Perry Driggs and Yale golfer Bob Wilford. Driggs fought to the eighteenth before bowing...
...earnest millions to Madison Square Garden last summer, and the pietistic claptrap emanating constantly from the White House indicate that Russell's rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer ignorance, popular Christianity has chosen to ignore...
Offered in 1959-60 will be Music 216, "Studies in Eighteenth Century Music," Music 217, "Studies in Nineteenth Century Music," Music 219, "Introduction to Ethnomusicology," and Music 220, "The History of Music Theory." Thereafter each four course group will be given in alternate years...
...that anachronistic imp," he smiled, giving me the same amused look he'd accorded the mention of Billy Graham. "Superficial, smart-aleck, shallow. And outdated. Agnostics are eighteenth century...