Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Editor of the Atlantic, who was also a member of the firm of Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers...
...from one small group of the population the college-bred, from one small geographical area, the northeastern section of the United States; from one small group of occupations, the professions." In reply to the criticism that the recent growth of the West makes a study of general nineteenth century talent unfair, Prof. Nearing chose 200 men in "Who's Who" who were born since 1870. The result was substantially the same...
...second part of "Henry IV" by William Shakespere, has been chosen as the Delta Upsilon revival this year. This is the nineteenth annual production of the Delta Upsilon but only once before has Shakespere been represented. Usually the more unfamiliar works of the lesser Elizabethans have been reproduced, but this year a Shakesperian play has been settled upon, in honor of the tercentenary of the great playwright's death...
...difficult task must be undertaken; the wounds which cosmopolitanism has received from the world catastrophe must somehow be healed. Ever since the little meeting of Scandinavian students at Lund, Denmark, in 1842, farsighted university men have been dreaming of an international understanding. All through the second half of the nineteenth century and up to the fateful July of 1914 national and international conferences had been held all over the world to further a spirit which, if followed by governments as well as by individuals, might have saved much to the world. But then came the plunge--and it seemed...
...asserted, been a serious danger to the rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems...