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...undergraduates further, and accusing the Undergraduate Council (of all things!) of mishandling the funds with which it is entrusted, Pilbeam administered a decanal snowjob to the Party Fund. Fun at Harvard began in the eighteenth century, after Increase Mather left for New Haven. It enjoyed its heyday in the nineteenth century, when undergraduates engaged in activities like literary discussions, the founding of Greek letter fraternities, manifest destiny, musical theater, and binge drinking. The founding of Radcliffe College in the late nineteenth century greatly increased the opportunities for fun on campus but greatly decreased the amount of fun on campus...
...face of this minor setback and a slight hesitance in the orchestra after the second restart, the piece proceeded boldly to the end. While Yannatos described his composition in completely abstract terms in his notes, it was clear that his concerto embodied the hero-versus-world aesthetic of nineteenth century Romantic pieces. Yannatos did not provide a program or narrative, but it was difficult not to hear Haimovitz as the protagonist in a story...
...environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating?" They were celebrating, more or less, the awesome arrival of modernity, thrilled, as well as frightened, by the shock of the new. Here, now, more than 150 years later, in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial 21st...
...lone idiot, insulated from reality like all those delirious academics that Lacaria loves to demonize, but I’d much prefer deciphering evidence like the above to his favorite mode of historical writing: namely, “if Homer said it, it must have been true of the nineteenth century, and it must be true...
...remind the reader that other people’s families can actually be interesting—about a third of the way in, beginning with “The Wilds of Morris Township,” a story that reproduces an extensive passage from the recollections of a mid-nineteenth-century relative known as Big Rob. He and two male cousins set out to “try their fortunes” in unsettled territory, and Rob’s practical but detailed description of the three men’s attempts to set up a household is full...