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...Nineteenth Century atmosphere−complete with cigar-chewing "house manager," candle footlights, handbill including an original notice by Dickens−is built up to give the audience a sense of superiority that enables it to laugh not only at the play but at the whole age which took such plays seriously...
...victory in the first Yale-Harvard Freshman match in years, was marked by the play of Stimpson in defeating the Yale leader. Vogel, in trimming Shurman on the nineteenth green, saved the day for the Crimson...
...church, and guild prohibited as far as possible all tendencies toward unregulated competition, and only in the first hectic days of the Industrial Revolution was it allowed full sway. Even before its full evils could become manifest it was checked by the factory and labor legislation of the early nineteenth century. When Mr. Mackay declares that "we must change our present tendencies and get back to the public policies of our fathers" he runs the danger of advocating what he proposes to abolish...
Professor Sprague's objections to socialism as a subject for debate are an interesting illustration of the change in thought since the early nineteenth century. Even fifty years ago there was no doubt in the public mind as to the definition of a socialist--a revolutionist and a social renegade. At that time he was as easily recognized by his objections to the status quo as by his proposed methods of reaching Utopia. Now it is somewhat difficult to find even a "blood-sucking capitalist" to agree that all's right in the world. The socialist's ideal has expanded...
...present on sabbatical leave for a year, the announcement that he will resume active work in the Summer School in a course on the "History of English Literature in the Nineteenth Century" predicts the resumption of his teaching at Harvard in the autumn...