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...story traces the acrobatics of an oh so eighteenth century count with a weakness for a winsom lady-in-waiting. Matters are confused considerably by the marked maid's dashing fiancee, Figaro, and inevitably by the lascivious count's peppery countess. When the bedclothes settle, the audience finds the proper pairs in the proper places, and a host of villagers send the couples merrily on their connubial ways...
Price said that he entered upon his office "proudly and gladly" but recalled that the situation had not always been thus: in the eighteenth century New England Puritans and Episcopalians hurled epithets at one another, and in 1859 Frederic Huntington resigned as University Preacher after becoming an Episcopalian, because he felt his denomination was inconsistent with Harvard custom...
...scholars." Honorary degrees, like that first one conferred on George Washington, will be given to those distinguished few who have done something for Harvard in specific or humanity in general. With each honorary degree, the President will pronounce a short testimonial, composed in a flowery language reminiscent of the eighteenth century...
...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 Calvinists, 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 ostensibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...
Part of what Time said, however, is true: Miss Arendt has looked hard at modern revolutions, and decided that they do not do what the revolutions of the eighteenth century tried to do--create an institutional basis within which freedom to participate in government and to enjoy civil liberties will be effectively guaranteed...