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...those who think music stopped in 1880, there was Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C. For those who think it began in 1923, the orchestra played the Five Bagatelles for Orchestra by contemporary composer Gunther Schuller. Then, for those who haven't accepted the dogma that the nineteenth century doesn't exist, there was every not of Tschaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, the "Pathetique...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, which brings to Harvard each year an authority of high distinction and international reputation, commemorates Harvard's great nineteenth century teacher of art history. Last year the professorship was held by Meyer Shapiro, professor of Fine Arts at Columbia...
Bundy replied with what one student called a "nineteenth century British balance of power philosophy." He said the U.S. was helping to prevent a third world war by stopping the Communists in South Vietnam...
Part 2 of "Animal Rescue Squad" takes viewers on an animal ambulance ride, into an ASPCA hospital, and then travels back in history to the nineteenth century, when there was no organized cam paign against cruelty to animals...
...Meeting-House itself figured significantly in Negro history. From the middle of the nineteenth century on, it was an active center of abolitionism; from its pulpit spoke such famous Negroes as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, and such eminent whites as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The building was also, from 1876 to 1936, the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has since moved to Warren Street in Roxbury...