Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rouses students, if they are rousable, to a very large amount of purely disinterested reading. In the Junior year for example, an English tutor will put men through a course in nineteenth century prose with no special bearing on the examinations. One energetic tutor last year reported that in the first two months and a half of the year a Sophomore read, outside his regular class work, and discussed with his tutor, 13 plays, two long poems, and one long novel, most of these being comparatively recent (not ephemeral) and not bearing particularly on the general examinations, work which must...
...collection of his grandfather, who as Minister of Justice under the first Napoleon was in a position to accumulate many important official and unofficial publications. The grandson's interest in the Revolutionary period expanded to include almost everything concerning the relations of church and state in France during the nineteenth century...
...fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind. In the nineteenth century it was called mal de siecle, mal de Rene, Werther-sickness--any number of names. Today it bears the label of "student suicide", probably because the public is now interested in students or at least in thousands of boys and girls who are termed students. But even before the advent...
...afternoon by defeating Newhall, 2 and 1. J. A. Hutchinson '28 then overwhelmed Moore 5 and 4. Playing the best ball Morrill and Hutchinson beat Newhall and Moore, 3 and 1. In the second part of the afternoon's play E. D. Cole '27, was beaten on the nineteenth hole by E. Yates and J. W. Hutchinson '29 downed J. Yates 8 and 7. Playing together, Cole and Hutchinson beat their engineer opponents...
...have been set apart for special public care. A law of 1641, recorded in the first section of "The General Laws of the Massachusetts Colony" published in October 1659, provides that capital cases are to be judged by the General Court" (Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1887, 1). During the nineteenth century, they were customarily brought at once before the Supreme Judicial Court, and before a quorum of that Court. The General Statues of 1860 provides that four justices constitute a quorum of the court; and that in capital cases. If the prisoner does not plead guilty, the court may assign...