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This annual freshman-sophomore football game was apparently the successor of another annual contest, a wrestling match between the two classes, a Harvard custom in the eighteenth century. Because the freshman-sophomore affair usually ended in a brawl, students got to calling game-day "Bloody Monday...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...
...surprises include an uncharacteristic Fragonard. "Pirtrait of a Man as Don Quixote." Deviating from his customary pink skies, many-petticoated plastic girls and French delicacy, Fragonard provides here an eighteenth century antecedent for van Gogh's thick and quick brushstrokes, and sharp outlines...
Divine Right. America has not just aged, according to Heren; it started old. Far from being steamy insurrectionists, the Founding Fathers were really "eighteenth century English gentlemen" who thought of themselves as engaged in a more or less orderly "transfer of power," with the presidency being merely the "lineal descendant of the colonial office of governor." In fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes...
...subject turned out to be the eighteenth century controversy between America's Old World revilers and her New World defenders...