Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Russian government removes from the knowledge to be administered all evil effects. From the gymnasia - preparatory schools with a seven years' course - the candidate is admitted into the university with a stock of knowledge manufactured on the above principles. But in spite of these precautions the spirit of the nineteenth century does reach the susceptible youths, and the consequence is that the students are plagued with communism, socialism, nihilism, and other isms, keeping the "courts" in constant session...
...twelfth two men were out; Tyng made a two-base hit over left field; Tower then retired by Dailey to Cogswell. Outs in order of striking followed until the seventeenth inning, when Dow made a base-hit only to retire on second by Carl to Cogswell. In the nineteenth inning Snigg pitched three times; Thayer striking a terrific liner to Woodhead, which he caught well; Ernst following with a long hit to right field, which was only saved from being a base-hit by Lanahan's sharp fielding. Latham then retired by Dailey to Cogswell; Lanahan led off with...
Trusting that you will lay this communication before the members of your company, and that before long I shall have the pleasure of aiding you to enjoy one of the greatest advantages of the nineteenth century...
...stand in no need at the present time of more monks, more dilettanti, more impotent theorists; the genius of the nineteenth century is not alone the contemplative, but the active life. In Mr. Dwight's article we find a theory of education of which the culminating triumph would be a character like Spinoza, The present interest in athletics may be pushed to an extreme; if so, it is but a healthy reaction and will soon right itself. We must try to check the evil without resigning the good; for, at all events, the "muscular Christian" is preferable to the languid...
...Williams, of the Senior class, a prize of fifty dollars for a dissertation on "The Poetry of the Nineteenth Century...