Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition of Japanese screens done during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will open in the Fogg Museum tomorrow. About 12 screens will be shown: among them is one specially interesting example of seventeenth century art, showing holiday-makers watching fans float on the Uji River. There is also a screen by Bunrin which is done in pure ink, without colour. Works by Bunrin are hardly available in Japan today as they are esteemed very highly...
...Luttman '29 ran to eighth place for the University, with G. B. Lee '30 placing fourteenth, Leslie Flaksman '29 taking sixteenth, and J. O. Wildes '29 nineteenth places to make up the University score...
Before the Rinehart custom began, however, there was another means of getting students to put their heads out of the windows and shout. All through the nineteenth century, whenever there came across the Yard a woman, be she young, middle-aged, or old and wrinkled, the cry went forth "Heads Out!" and windows were flung up as other students took up the shout. With the coming of the Gibson girl to the "Annex"--in other words Radcliffe--and the end of the Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical...
...small and select group of movies which have successfully recounted one of the classic themes of literature. In the first place, "Les Miserables" was produced in France with an entirely French cast so that we are spared the painful experience of seeing Hollywood blondes in the role of early nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details do not crop out to disrupt...
...last decade of the nineteenth century, Professor Emeritus Eugene Wambaugh '76 conceived the idea of having students of the Law School serve the needy members of the public by establishing a law office to which people could go without charge. Before this time the various members of the Bar had been able to see that the rights of the lower classes were protected, but with increasing specialization among lawyers, this has become impossible...