Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American students other than the Rhodes scholars few remain at Oxford for the full course of three years. Modern Oxford is frankly disappointing to many Americans, for it is changing rapidly from a quaint town to a large and noisy one. The hand of the nineteenth century fell heavily upon its heritage of beauty and atmosphere, and the twentieth is no kinder...
...opening of the last decade of the nineteenth century found many evidences of growth in the CRIMSON. In 1885 the paper, bitten once again by the literary bug, started a monthly supplement, and thus originated the Harvard Monthly, which soon established its own identity and for many years competed with the Advocate. At this time also an intercollegiate press association was formed, including the Yale News and the Daily Princetonian, and with the change of the Harvard paper's name to Rarvard CRIMSON in 1891 a now era began. The CRIMSON was forced to enlarge and better itself because...
...States during the differences will France in 1798 and 1799, the Coast Guard cutters captured 18, unaided, and assisted in the capture of two others; that a Coast Guard vessel made the first capture during the War of 1812; that piracy, which prevailed during the first part of the nineteenth century in the Gulf of Mexico, owed its suppression chiefly to the Coast Guard; that the cutters participated actively in the Seminole Indian War, the Mexican War, the Paraguayan Expedition in 1858, and, in the Civil...
...common with the glittering sophistication of the Augustans. The past few years have witnessed an astonishing revival of interest in Pepys, Congreve, and the Johnson circle, while pre-Raphaelites, transcendentalists, romanticists go unread. Indeed the present has little sympathy with many of the ideals and standards of the nineteenth century. Traditions, morals, and conventions have to bear the daily shafts of the lighter humorists, to say nothing of the sledge-hammer blows of H. L. Menken and the rest of the Grub Street fry on the American Mercury. Emerson, Carlyle, and Mill are no longer known at first hand. Writers...
...hear many people tell you that the glamor of the stage wears off quickly, but I have not found it so," De Wolf Hopper, whose career as a comic actor dates back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...