Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS year as well as last saw literary representations of nineteenth century decades at a rate almost epidemic. Don Marquis wrote of the adventurous business enterprises of the seventies. "The Mauve Decade" summed up, falsely, some aver, the social life of the nineties, and Mark Sullivan with the "Turn of the Century" said his say on the politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation...
...Nineteenth Century Architecture," Professor Edgell, New Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...
Another evidence of the dissolution of that generation of men which started Harvard University on her tremendous nineteenth century expansion is marked by the resignation from the Corporation of Dr. Henry Pickering Walcott. As a friend of the late Charles William Eliot and in his various official capacities to the University Dr. Walcott has witnessed the development of the institution from one of centralized to national significance. Thirty seven years of service have placed him in a position where he may now survey the results of the efforts expended by him and his associates. And thirty seven years have given...
...Harvard baseball team will play its nineteenth game of the season this afternoon when it meets Providence College on Soldiers Field...
...summary of the matches follows: Stimpson (H) lost to Cox (U), 4 to 3; Barnum (H) defeated J. Beale (U), 4 to 2; Morrill (H) defeated Blair, 2 and 1; Cole (H) defeated R. Beale (U), 1 up on the nineteenth hole; Stimpson and Barnum (H) defeated Cox and J. Beale (U), 1 up; Morrill and Cole (H) defeated Blair and R. Beale...