Word: nineteenth
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Relations between the countries have been strained since the late nineteenth century and there is ongoing controversy over which group should bear responsibility for American deaths in the wake of the Ottoman empire's disintegration...
...Hollis roommate of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, knew the importance of change and the need to let go when he said that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." I did want so much to be true to my first opinion about tradition and the familiar, but the light and open spaces of the Barker Center have made me happily inconsistent. After all, there is a tradition of the new, even here at Harvard...
...they would keep citizens informed of and involved in the local and national affairs, educating them in order to foster a better citizenship. Second, the knowledge that an independent press existed would chasten public officials and check their potential excesses. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about newspapers during the early nineteenth century in his monumental work Democracy in America: "So the more equal men [sic] become and the more individualism becomes a menace, the more necessary are newspapers. We should underrate their importance if we thought they just guaranteed liberty; they maintain civilization...
After a hymn, President Neil L. Rudenstine addressed the seniors, continuing a Baccalaureate tradition of presidential addresses dating from the nineteenth century...
...Nineteenth century Americans reveled in the twin myths of "discovery" and "progress," which had been so vastly strengthened by the physical conquest of North America and the expansion of technology. Americans could make anything, solve any problem, produce a cataract of inventions. This applied everywhere but the visual arts, where taste was generally conservative. In art, people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart...