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...possible doubt that the combined proofs of the expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business...
...causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar to the Laws of Nature and the Fourteen Points, and thus were carefully removed from the contamination of practical...
...recent discovery of a coin dated 1742, the date of erection of Holden Chapel, and of several relies of the eighteenth century near the new Holden dormitories, has directed interest to the remarkable history of the chapel. During 183 years it has served in almost every capacity possible to a building...
That popular song writing by members of the University is by no means modern or indeed limited to any particular period of Harvard history, is shown in a collection of old college songs of the eighteenth and nineteenth century which have recently been given to the University by Richard Inglis '03. The collection reveals the origin of some of the well-known songs of today together with that of many which have long since passed into oblivion...
...conclusions but with the promise. It is easy to classify most literature as tending either for or against a proletariat millenium, but it should be done without questioning the sincerity of the writers. Interest in the lower classes, "the cult of the poor," did not begin until the eighteenth century. Before that time proletarian milleniums were unheard of, and unimagined. Mr. Sinclair would have one believe that "when an artist embodies his emotions in an art form, he does so because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change the emotions of other people...