Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waters. Seemingly there is nothing for the college to do but guide the motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them. To many experience alone means education. To these outside activities afford this experience...
...Russia's Economic Development in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...Russia's Economic Development in the second half of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid the clang of street cars and the whirr of machines...
...Russia's Social and Intellectual Development in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Karpovich, Sever...