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...addition to its specific virtues as a solid and much needed piece of work in nineteenth century American history, Professor Taylor's book can be recommended for the example it gives of just such an attempt at patient and thorough examination. In their own day, the rival conceptions of the shrewd, hard-trading, thick-skinned Yankee, and the landed, generous, sensitive Cavalier were much more than the propaganda cliches to which they have declined since; for, as Professor Taylor shows, it is the desperation with which educated Southerners sought to make this vocabulary come alive, and embody the South whose...
Back in the last decades of nineteenth-century France when it was becoming fashionable for dramatists to flee the earthly confines of Naturalism for a more rarefied atmosphere of theatrical expression, the theatres of the so-called "Boulevard" (as opposed to the official theatres on the one hand, and the avant-garde houses on the other) continued to provide the public with a steady diet of light and unpretentious works of conventional stamp, untouched by Symbolism, Decadence, or Wagnerian innovation. In such productions the gamut of quality was understandably a wide one. Many of them, perhaps most, were concocted...
Only two non-science courses have more than 100 students registered. English 70, an introductory course in American literature plays to 128 students, 110 for credit. One hundred-four students are enrolled in English 151, a study of nineteenth century British novelists that was also very popular at Harvard last year...
Harvard pranksters made another leap into Cambride prominence with a revival of the nineteenth century's4THE LAMPOON Not Yet Subsided...
...long-time proprietor or Humanities 133, "Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century," Jones also served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...