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After almost 165 years' absence, eighteenth-century Britain has returned to Boston. The reigning monarch, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, now holds court at the Charles Playhouse, and his evening revels contain the funniest antics since George III went...
...only surprise in figures released this week by Sargent Kennedy '28, registrar, is the spectacular drop in enrollment suffered by History 134a, the Intellectual History of Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, taught by Crane Brinton '19, professor of History...
...fifth century B.C. (B) The fourteenth century A.D. (C) The sixteenth century A.D. (D) The eighteenth century A.D. (E) The twentieth century...
Informed analysts agreed that the Senator's mind, by a curious quirk of evolution, had reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...
...revelry grew and for a while Commencement was a noisy carnival with academic and social pretentions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots, Anglicans, and Calvanists, all attended the great Commencements of the eighteenth century and were followed there by spectacle-seeking hordes. Vending booths and freak shows were set up along the streets in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all osten- sibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...