Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result are not far to seek. The New Philosophy has received its great development within a few years; the enthusiasm of its founders may be that of our teachers; the great questions about which it is concerned are not new ones, to be sure, but they are in their nineteenth-century dress, and stand in a purer, clearer air than in the scienceless centuries of Thomas Aquinas and the schoolmen. It is just this difference of dress and environment which makes the difference between enthusiasm and apathy which their discussion produces; and no greater mistake can be made...
...time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier, she must have been endowed with a prophetic foresight truly miraculous in the Protestant Christendom of the nineteenth century...
LIVING, as we do, at Cambridge, and breathing the most advanced and progressive spirit of the nineteenth century, we are apt to forget that few spots in America have so much historic interest, and are so closely associated with the birth of our Republic, as the immediate vicinity of Harvard College. Although so near the centennial of the Concord Fight, we have met several intelligent students who were totally ignorant of the where, how, and wherefore of the early battles of the Revolution. As no more appropriate time could be found for fighting our old battles o'er again...
...shops through our sacred soil, her peelers interfere with our after-dinner reveries, her people crowd our conveyances to Boston, her factories disgust us. Her mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student's heart. The Port is of the nineteenth century, shoppy; we who feel - to use a vulgarism - the ancient and patrician oats of our two hundred and thirty-ninth year (Freshmen of the present year especially) will no longer bear the plebeian yoke...
Which the Seniors will sing on the nineteenth of June...