Word: nineteenth
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Fourth on the list is History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth-Century Continental Europe, given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C. C. N. Y. The most popular course during the regular term, Economics 1, has an enrollment for its summer version of only...
...After fifteen hundred years of victories, the Revolution of the fourth century (that of the kings and nobles against the people) had been overthrown by the Revolution of the nineteenth century (that of the people against the kings and nobles). Napoleon was born of this conflagration, and he had allied himself so closely with it that it seemed as if the great convulsion had been nothing more than the labor pains of the birth of one man. He commanded the Revolution as if he were the genius of that terrible element...
...well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school field trips and parental visits and interest in the school. In community, after community, parents have had to take a stand where schools...
...early nineteenth century graduate looked back at his college days and noted that while there was much work done in philosophy and composition, "the chief labor and crowning honor of successful scholarship were in mathematics and the classics...
Graduate students who received Bowdoin Prizes ($600) were Richard M. Ohmann 6G, in the Humanities, for "Prose Style: The Theoretical Background;" Paul Seaver 3G, in Social Studies, for "James Anthony Froude: An Excursion into Nineteenth Century Historiographical Controversy;" and Allen G. Debus 2G, Natural Sciences, for "The Introduction of the 'New Phisicke' in Elizabethan England...