Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Without doubt we have not enough courses in English Literature. In required Rhetoric Prof. Hill lectures on ten authors as masters of English style. He also has two half courses, given in alternate years, on the literature of the eighteenth, and of the nineteenth centuries. Professor Child, besides his two courses in Anglo-Saxon, has one in Chaucer, one in Shakespeare, and one in Bacon and Milton. The Shakespeare may be taken in two successive years, thus counting as two courses; while the Chaucer, and the Bacon and Milton are given in alternate years. This...
...Wednesday evening the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, held a discussion on "Religion in Colleges." President Eliot and President McCosh, of Princeton, were the principal speakers. President Eliot spoke in the main as follows...
President Eliot will debate with President McCosh to-night at the Nineteenth Century Club. The subject will be "Religion at Colleges...
...misunderstand the term freshman. Among the ancient Hindoos, by whom the word was first used, the sterner sex alone was capable of imbibing Greek, Latin and elocution; but tempora mutantur, and with the advent of the nineteenth century it was necessary for women too to be acquainted with empiricism and algebra, and therefore the old Sanskrit word has lost something of its significance...
President Eliot, of Harvard, will read a paper before the New York Nineteenth Century club during the winter upon "Religion in College...