Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should advice for those who were affected in the same way that he was. A shake of the head, a wiggle in the drain pipe and he had it. He would without more ado advocate a quiet half hour in the Fogg Art Museum viewing the exhibition of early nineteenth century English water-colors...
...easy to point to the futility of restrictive measures throughout the nineteenth century and to conclude that Germany's move is ill-considered. Complete civil liberty, however, has never been accepted as an administrative maxim. In this country, federal customs restrictions, state prohibitions, provide for censorship and deny the right of free meeting. Unless the application of Germany's decree is extremely rigorous, the Fatherland need not be ranked with Italy and Russia as a post-war despotism...
...recipients of honorary Harvard degrees for almost a century. This list of honorary degrees granted ad eundem gradum includes the names of many notable persons, but the College authorities gradually came to the conclusion that the practice was not a worthy one and it was abandoned early in the nineteenth century. From 1724 until 1753 all of the honorary degrees bestowed in Cambridge were ad eundem, but in the latter year Benjamin Franklin received the degree of A.M., not because of an earlier connection with another college but because of his distinguished career...
...number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making the Library's collection of that...
...Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks...