Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussion now going on in the Nineteenth Century is arousing a great deal of interest in England, and has also attracted much attention on this side of the water; and it may well do so, for it is upon a subject-the merits and demerits of the present examination system, which has been much discussed among us of late, and is one of the problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators...
...United States should complete the Panama canal as the best means of getting such control.- The Nineteenth Century, XXIII...
...Batchelder, is an original but rather startling Druid sketch. "A Parable" is very brightly written. We hope the Blue Hound and the Small Young Ass will appreciate its humor as well as its sarcasm. The last prose article is "Jerry's Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains a good idea, but may more properly be called rhyme than poetry. Mr. Dennison's "Alackaday" is good, though the sentiment is not strikingly original...
...Chapel was well filled yesterday afternoon at the Vesper Service. The Rev. Dr. Gordon conducted the meeting and after the reading of the nineteenth Psalm, gave a short sermon. He took as his text the incident of Mary being excluded from the inn prior to Christ's birth. He said if men would only consent to come into real contact with Christianity it would have the effect of an electric battery, establishing a complete sovereignty in their thought, interest, and being. The choir sang the anthems, "It came upon the midnight clear," by Sullivan; "Thus said the Lord," from...
...Nineteenth Century Club will hold a reception in the Opera House at New York to-night. An address will be delivered by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, on the "Aims and Traits of a World Language." A discussion will take place after the lecture, and it will be participated in by Professor Charles E. Sprague, representing Volapuk, and Professor Alexander M. Bell, on behalf of "World English." President Eliot, of Harvard, ex-President McCosh, of Princeton, and ex-President Porter, of Yale, who are members of the club, will probably be present...