Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opportunity for studying his ideas and purposes. What Dante sees in his vision of Hell is the natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...
...Kiel; the so-called Bernward Column from the Cathedral of Innsbruck, richly carved with scenes from the life of Christ; three cases of bronze plaquettes by Peter Floetua dating from the sixteenth century; the Auerbach collection of plaquettes from the Museum of Basle, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The walls of the building are hung with photographs, illustrating ecclesiastical architecture in Germany...
...scene of "Le Menteur" is the Tuileries in Paris; the time, the seventeenth century. The action of the play centers about the character of Dorante, a young man who has recently returned to Paris from school in Poitiers. Geronte, father of Dorante, is anxious to have his son marry Clarice. The young lady is not unwilling, but would like to see her suitor before deciding. She is loved by Alcippe, but their marriage being constantly delayed by his father, who finds no time to come to the ceremony, she is willing to accept another suitor. Isabelle proposes...
...first Harvard man in, his time being 35m., 28s. His showing would have been better had it not been for the muddy track, conditions for which he is unfitted. Besides Colwell, the first men on the Harvard team to finish were Hall, Clerk and King, who came in thirteenth, seventeenth and twenty-first, respectively...
...measure to the rough condition of the greens. Daniels secured the lead at first by well directed approach shots, but Tuckerman evened the match at the turn and the score remained even till the fifteenth. Tuckerman won the fifteenth and sixteenth in bogey, and halved the seventeenth, thus winning the match...