Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seventeenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in Washington, D. C., on Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, December 27, 28, 30, 31. The American Economic Association will also meet in Washington, on the first three days of the Historical Association meeting. Harvard will be represented by two members of the Faculty who will read papers as follows: Prof. Ephraim Emerton, "The Chronology of the Erasmus letters;" Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, "Party Legislation in Parliament, in Congress and in the State Legislatures...
...scene of "Les Plaideurs" is laid in Normandy in the early part of the seventeenth century. The play holds up to ridicule people who take petty cases to court, as well as the judges who try the cases. The action of the play turns about the old Judge Dandin, who has become weak minded through a too close application to his profession. His son, Leandre, takes care of him, and to keep him from going to court arranges a trial at home, at which the house dog, who has stolen a capon, serves as culprit...
...opening services of the year in Appleton Chapel were held at 7.30 last night. After anthems by the choir and an opening prayer, Dr. Francis G. Peabody read the scripture lesson from the seventeenth chapter of St. Matthew. This was followed by a third anthem, and Professor George F. Moore then delivered the sermon...
...History Department two new courses are announced, History 28, a half course, on the History of Continental Europe in the seventeenth century, and History 27, on the sources and literature of American history. Both will be given by Professor Channing. A new course in the Economics Department is "Principles of Law in their Application to Industrial Problems,"open to Seniors and Graduates...
...these claims lay the seeds of clerical supremacy and sacerdotalism, that afterwards bore the full fruit of the exclusive "high church" ideas. The Roman church adopted these ideas and fully expressed them in the Council of Trent; in Germany and in England the reformers repudiated them, but in the seventeenth century they crept back again into a section of the Anglican church...