Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Godkin Lectures are given annually in memory of the late Edwin L. Godkin, who founded the Nation magazine and edited the New York Evening Post in the nineteenth century...
...collection of skeletons was far too tempting and the building too easily plundered. Midnight raids and subsequent wall displays of skulls and thigh bones became a mid-century tradition. The notorious Med. Fac. has been traced back to these raids. This addition to undergraduate nihilism rounded out Holden's nineteenth century innovations...
...infrequently; music for two bassoons practically never. Yet an entire literature exists for the "bass oboe"- as it is sometimes called-both solo and in ensemble. As Sunday night's program indicated, the great wealth of such music lies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; evidently it was the nineteenth that bannished bassoons from the recital stage to the Stygian regions of the orchestra...
...student new skills hat are not grounded in the easy subjectivism of an "interpretive" course. But most important of all, the alleged art-historical esotericism of the middle level courses seems still to have attracted a creditable number of enthusiasts beyond the 25 Harvard concentrators. "Art of the Nineteenth Century" and "Architecture of the Americas" were well enough attended last term to demand the large downstairs lecture room in the Fogg Museum; more obscure fields like "Mediaeval Art" and "Italian Painting of the Fifteenth Century" had gatherings large enough to be scheduled in the ample upstairs lecture room...
...derisive laughs, and Boston prudery was as much a part of folklore as Western rawness and Southern comforts. Times, whether for good or ill, have changed; a visitor to the city can prowl most of Boston before he runs across much restriction or even restraint. But though the nineteenth-century veneer of its citizenry is no more, the Commonwealth clings to laws of Victorian vintage...