Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Years ago when Fast Day was a legal holiday in Massachusetts, the University held its spring recess at that time. When Fast Day was dropped from the list of regularly observed holidays, Harvard selected the week of April nineteenth for the recess. It was then thought to be most advantageous to have the vacation at a fixed rather than a varying period of the year. To us, today, however, there seem other more important considerations than absolute regularity, which should bear on the choice of the time for the vacation. Those students who live in Boston or Cambridge or nearby...
...opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who go to homes outside Massachusetts for the week of April nineteenth find that their Yale and Princeton friends and those who are at other institutions have had their good times and are now back at work. The festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them at work. Then when all the real opportunities for a thoroughly...
...absence of Professors E. C. Moore, Theobald Smith, Santayana, and R. B. Perry, during the second half-year, Professor Fite of the University of Indiana will conduct two half-courses, Philosophy 16, on "Representative Philosophical Thinkers of the Nineteenth Century" and Philosophy 5b on "Metaphysics." He will also assist Professor Royce in Philosophy 8, a half-course in advanced logic. Assistant Professor G. P. Adams, of the University of California will also conduct the following courses during the second half-year: Philosophy 3 on the "Philosophy of Nature, with Especial Reference to Man's Place in Nature," Philosophy...
...semi-final round of the University individual golf championship, played yesterday over the links of the Woodland Golf Club, F. C. Davidson '12 was put out of the running by B. W. Estabrook '14 in an exciting match settled only on the nineteenth green. The match between P. M. Smith '11 and D. C. Nugent '11 was postponed until Monday. Play in the consolation round will also be continued next week...
...idea of a federated Europe developed and took shape in the struggle of the European powers against Napoleon. This confederation, of course, excluded France. After the Napoleonic wars France was necessarily considered in any idea of a federation of European powers. During the nineteenth century, however, the spirit of confederation was displaced by a strong spirit of nationalism, which was the most potent cause...