Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Included are a number of pieces of twelfth and thirteenth century Chinese pottery known as Chun and they are second to none both in quality and quantity. Some 300 examples of elaborate eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese jades and crystal's constitute the main body of the collection. Their variety of shape, beauty of color and diversity of ornament make this group, Museum officials state, of unusual interest to art lovers and petroologists...
...after the war, "a mighty alliance of all the incompetents" will demand continued Government protection for uneconomic wartime habits. If this comes to pass, the U.S. will find itself in "the most rigid and closed of socialisms . . . a tyranny of collective incompetence at least as disastrous as the nineteenth century tyranny of unbridled competence...
...courses in the field, entering Freshmen need but six, although eight is, of course, highly recommended. Also, a reading knowledge of either French and German, rather than both, as was previously stipulated, will admit a student into one of the cross section fields: the Renaissance, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, or Nineteenth century. Ancient and Modern Authors exams may be tied in more with the tutorial than heretofore, but this decision still rests with the department...
Within History and Literature are special fields, most popular of which have been America, England, and the Nineteenth century. A small field such as the Seventeenth or Eighteenth century has its advantages, however, in that a smaller amount of material can be better digested...
Nikolai Gogel's "The Inspector General", a nineteenth century Russian "Louisiana Purchase" has been announced as the choice for the Harvard Dramatic Club's sixty-fifth production. Casting has already been completed with Robert Keahy '45, playing the principle role in this Russian comedy about corrupt politicians...