Word: nineteenth
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During the Nineteenth Century, the establishment of July 4th as a national holiday and of Class Day as the time for a last fling sobered up Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
...punch came into the Yard, and within the next four years, Senior celebrations had become so bachannalian that President Quincy put a ban on dancing and drinking, thereby threatening to nip Class Day in the bud. But when the actual day arrived, the ladies, who according to some dim nineteenth century logic had previously gone away from the Yard in the afternoon when the real celebrating began, were allowed to remain. Something in the sight of the couples and the sound of the band made President Quincy reverse his field and exclaim "Music! Young men! Young ladies! No dancing! Take...
...removed by a few degrees above the savage state, as youths on the eve of graduating from our colleges often are, put up with course amusements only because no refined ones are offered in their stead." Today, for instance, there will be a baseball game instead of the nineteenth century's dance around the Liberty Tree, which involved holding hands and skipping about and jumping frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden...
Furniture and furnishings--some given by alumni and friends and others on lean from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiques and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--are examples of these found in a New England House of the early nineteenth century...
With Gilbert and Sullivan operettas as with very few other kinds of entertainment there is a standard which the production either does or doesn't meet. The D'Oyly Carte Company set the standard at the premiere of each of the works way back in the Nineteenth Century, and it alone holds to the standard. Other companies try to do the operettas every now and then, but at best they are obvious substitutes--the spark is not there...