Word: nineteenth
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...their infancy and "Laugh It Off" would sound as incongruous for a title as "Bombastes Furioso" sounds today. The evolution of these performances from mock trials and impromptu sketches to elaborately modern and professionally coached musical comedies has a parallel in the change of the American vaudeville from nineteenth century burlesque to the present type of musical extravaganza...
That popular song writing by members of the University is by no means modern or indeed limited to any particular period of Harvard history, is shown in a collection of old college songs of the eighteenth and nineteenth century which have recently been given to the University by Richard Inglis '03. The collection reveals the origin of some of the well-known songs of today together with that of many which have long since passed into oblivion...
...There has been a gradual decay of religious influence in European civilization," said Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, at the nineteenth meeting of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course in religion held in Peabody Hall yesterday...
...common law, and to enable us to receive English law and English equity as a practically applicable system for the new world were not easy tasks. Like tasks await us today in connection with criminal law, legislation, and judicial organization and administration. What Dane's foundation did in the nineteenth century, like foundations may do in the twentieth...
Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, will deliver the nineteenth lecture of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion at 4 o'clock tomorrow, taking as his subject "Science and Religion". Professor Whitehead, who is well known as a mathematical philosopher and logician, of Cambridge University, will discuss his subject from an analytical point of view...