Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Right to Strike," by W. G. Merritt '02; "Times of Sunrise and Sunset in the United States," by R. W. Willson '73; "The Higher Life in Art," by John La Farge '01; "Mars as the Abode of Life," by Percival Lowell '76; "The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century," by E. R. O. von Mach '95; "Pedro Sanchez," by Jose M. Pereda, edited by R. W. E. Bassett '89; "Modernism," by Paul Sabatier, translated by C. A. Miles '53; "Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value," by W. H. Snyder...
...generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed...
...nineteenth of May, however, it is expected the Corporation will have chosen a successor, one of whose duties will be to sign the degrees. With a new man in office it would be impossible for President Eliot to sign them as such an act would be an infringement on the duties of his successor which the President would never consent to. It would be unwise to usurp such a function even though there was a unanimous petition in favor of it. The new president will be given every opportunity to take hold of his work and responsibilities under the most...
...fact is, moreover, that after the nineteenth of May President Eliot will be no longer President of Harvard University and in signing a degree which has its legal as well as academic and sentimental aspects, he would be acting outside his legal powers. It would necessitate a special vote of the Corporation to appoint him to serve in that capacity in order to make the degrees strictly official...
...LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL STUDIES. VII. "Nineteenth Century: The German Period." II. Professor Morgan. Harvard...