Word: nineteenth
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Charles Eliot Norton was one of the most famous characters of "old Cambridge." The unique and forceful personality that made him one of the greatest of nineteenth century teachers and a triumphant torchbearer in the elevation of fine arts to a high place not only in educational curricula but in public esteem put his name among those of Harvard's best-known sons, where it will long be secure. Changing Cambridge has long since swept away "Norton's Woods," and not even the name remains to designate the residential district across Kirkland Street. But Harvard, and the educational and artistic...
...general topics: "China," a series of eight lectures by Dr. S. K. Hornkeck of Harvard, beginning on November 28: "The Founders of the Middle Ages," eight lectures by Professor E. K. Rand '94 of Harvard, beginning on January 11, 1928: "The Foundations of Reform in England in the Nineteenth Century," six lectures by Professor E. P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, beginning on February 6: Struggles and Settlements on the Fringe of Rival Civilizations," six lectures by Sir H. B. Ames, beginning on February 27: "The Folk Songs of France, Italy, Germany, and Russia" four illustrated lectures by Professor...
...Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...
From Austria comes Professor A. F. Pribram, Professor of History in the University of Vienna. The special field to be covered by his lectures is divided into courses on the history of the Hapsburg Empire and on England's relations with France and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century...
...proud of being in haste and having no time for long tales, only for the "short" story. But he made his public sit down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly in a comical vein of the things of life, of births, christenings, weddings, and bitter deaths". The first outstanding figure in the family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth...