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...Eighteenth-ranked Yale (4-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy) holds second place in the conference, but suffered two setbacks last week...
...Civic Liberalism. "But despite the book-jacket bluster, Kaus' solution is as old as America itself. Alexis de Tocqueville considered strong civic ties to be the cornerstone of democracy, and the activists of the French Revolution even reorganized the calendar in order to squeeze class rivalry out of late-eighteenth-century society. Kaus' philosophy is nothing...
...acting as a symbol, a building can resonate with much greater force in the cultural consciousness; it is like an empty vessel that has been filled with a culturally-endowed meaning. During the occupation of Barcelona by the Bourbons in the eighteenth century, for example, the construction of the Ciutadella (the Citadel of Barcelona) became a hated symbol of Bourbon tyranny...
Forget about the Ad Board. if Harvard students transgressed in the eighteenth century, they had to pay--in shillings and pence. Here's a menu of charges of student sins...
...bottles, he says, were probably discarded by undergraduates in the eighteenth century. "The yard was by no means dry at this time." Stubbs notes...