Word: nineteenth
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...million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over accounts in the ledger of John Jones, the proprietor, show that the patronage included statesmen like Daniel Webster, professional men like Harrison Gray Otis, and military men like General William H. Sumner, but the characteristic features...
...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
Taine believed that many of the troubles which confronted France in the nineteenth century were due to the attempts made to import from England ideas and practices which had no root in the traditions of the country. This was even more true of other countries, which were far less prepared for the liberal regime than France. The force of example was so strong, however, that in almost all countries of Europe the power of the absolute monarchy was broken and constitutional systems were instituted before 1914. Two of the most notable examples were Russia and Turkey. It is quite conceivable...
Professor Edward Henry Warren '95, who delivered his final lecture in the Law School last Saturday morning, is the man for whom the club is named. On Friday night the Warren Club defeated the Pollock-Choate Club in the finals of the nineteenth Ames Competition...
Born. To Mrs. Jacob Bertriscky, 36, of Scranton, Pa., Bridgie & Rosie, sixth set of twins, eighteenth and nineteenth children. Thirteen Bertriscky children live...