Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that Associate Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his course on the History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century will occasion much interest. Professor Copeland has been on sabatical leave during the past year, and will resume teaching for the first time in the course...
There will be half-way gentlemen among that famous gallery of censors, neither affronted or approving, who will bethink them sadly of the beauty of "lost causes"--the minuet, quadrille, polka, and other dances once softened by a delicate formalism and ritualistic sobriety now in disuse. Even an early nineteenth century dance manual showed sings of a growing decadence, the passing of the classical restraint and solemnity of the dance of puritanical epochs. Couples were admonished above all things, thus implying that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed...
...novel experiment in education will be tried this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall at the Mid-year Examination in English 72, Professor Lowes' course on the "Romantic Poetry of the Nineteenth Century". As many books as the student can carry may be brought into the room and used freely throughout the examination...
...three short dramas chosen were written during the latter nineteenth century and have been produced with success on Paris Stages. The first play is entitled "La Joie Fait Peur," a dramatic comedy, written about 1860 by Madame Emile de Girardin, and the second is "Le Baiser" by Theodore de Banville, written about...
Americans would doubtless look on the inauguration of a policy of "Imperial Preference" with a mixture of pride and fear. They would be able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position...