Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is no longer the nineteenth century when American always tried to keep to herself. The twentieth century is characterized by world-wide competition in trade and commerce. Why has England been at war with Germany? Is it not for commercial supremacy? At the termination of the war, I venture to predict that the competition in the world maker will be felt more and more keen, not between England and Germany but between American and the victorious party. Also I venture to predict that the busy market will be found in China, whose untold resource have long surprised the whole...
...place in philosophy, it may be said, I think, that he was the greatest representative in America, and, with the exception of F. H. Bradley, of Oxford, the greatest representative on the later nineteenth century of the idealistic tradition. As the greatest modern idealist, he differed from others in his respect for science and in his mastery of the fundamentals of the sciences. Of the almost captious contempt which other idealists showed for the work of the sciences, he had none. There was room in his mind for all the contributions of materialism and science...
...literature; Professor Rossier will lecture on the questions of contemporary history; and Professor Freymond will give a course on the French language since the Revolution. During the second part of the session, from August 10 to August 30, Professor Volait will give a course on literary life in the nineteenth century. Professor Maurer will give a course which will consider the theory of translation, with its practical application in translating from English, German, and Russian into French. The other courses will give practice in composition and grammar...
...storehouse of information on the drama is bringing an increasing number of students to the Library. One of Professor Baker's students recently found it unnecessary to go to England to revise the manuscript of his history of the English stage during a certain part of the nineteenth century; the exhibition enabled him to do this in Cambridge...
...Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty is one of the oldest traditions of Harvard, it is time for a protest in the name of our motto. There was a remote epoch in which academic dress was regularly and correctly worn, but throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century the Harvard Senior wore ordinary clothes on all occasions except Class Day, when he appeared in a dress suit and high hat. He wore his dress suit all day, and consequently looked as if he had been up all night. The present gown was introduced about...