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...earnest millions to Madison Square Garden last summer, and the pietistic claptrap emanating constantly from the White House indicate that Russell's rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer ignorance, popular Christianity has chosen to ignore...
Offered in 1959-60 will be Music 216, "Studies in Eighteenth Century Music," Music 217, "Studies in Nineteenth Century Music," Music 219, "Introduction to Ethnomusicology," and Music 220, "The History of Music Theory." Thereafter each four course group will be given in alternate years...
...that anachronistic imp," he smiled, giving me the same amused look he'd accorded the mention of Billy Graham. "Superficial, smart-aleck, shallow. And outdated. Agnostics are eighteenth century...
With the College represented as it now is nothing can be expected. The system can be compared only to the "rotten borough" one of eighteenth-century England. Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
Perry retired in 1930, and so the field was left to his two co-pioneers. Greenough taught a course in eighteenth-century English thought and expression; Murdock taught a course in the American Novel...