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During the nineteenth century, however, rugby or rugger became more formalized. Gradually, distinctions were drawn between two variants of the game. One, which permitted players to pick up the ball and run with it, soon evolved into rugby. The other version, which only permitted players to kick the ball, was soon formalized as a separate sport. In fact, soccer, or rugby without passing, today enjoys greater popularity than its kin in Scotland...
...dramas--the life of Keats and the life of his mind. Using the most recent discoveries in the manuscripts of the "Keats Circle" as well as older criticism and interpretation, he succeeds in drawing remarkably close to the London Keats must have known in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. By skillful, imaginative use of sources, he lifts the dullness from detail and adds a charm of his own: "On February 9, which was a fair warm day, [Keats] took a short walk in the garden, but he seems to have remained indoors the rest of the month, spending...
...none of these appeals, there remains a choice between "Groups Theory with Application to Statistical Mechanics" (Physics 264) and Louis Hartz' strangely timed course on nineteenth century political thought (Gov. 203). If absolutely nothing lures you, then await the gentlemanly hour of eleven to arise...
...faculty were expressing increasing dissatisfaction with the role of "specialism" in the College. Several Student Council reports which were later endorsed by the Dean of the College deplored the effects of the free elective system which had been introduced by President Eliot in the latter half of the nineteenth century to initiate Harvard into the research activities of the German universities. As the importance of specialism grew, the elective system went in opposition to the British tradition of individualized undergraduate education that had marked Harvard since its founding and seemed to be reducing the College to a preparatory wing...
...discussion of the roots of contemporary liberal education, Pusey identified two educational ideas which emerged in the nineteenth century to alter the traditional concept of education as the transmission of a relatively fixed body of knowledge...