Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the most interesting publications will be reprints of two seventeenth century pamphlets, which have recently been found in the Lincoln Cathedral Library. "The Pilgrimage of Robert Langton" is the name of the first, while the second is "A most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake," by Henry Robarts. These editions will be limited to 755 copies apiece...
...Seventeenth among the nations (alphabetically), marched the finest athletes of the U. S., 300 strong. Up in the line somewhere strode their most-feared rivals, 60 hardy Finns, among whom the greatest names were Paavo Nurmi (distance runner entered in six races), Willie Ritola (present U. S. distance champion, bearing Finland's colors because of an Olympic ruling), Hannes Kolehmainen (long time a Marathon marvel), Porhola and Torpo (weights...
...exile any more fortunate in genealogical tree-lore than in word-hunting. He has taken in vain the name of an active, numerous and prosperous Bay State clan, a worthy example of middle-class virtues, but in the Massachusetts sense of "family" still painfully "new," and without the indispensable seventeenth century grace and conservation. The myth of Caroline purple has doubtless been strengthened by certain famous verses, excellent in themselves, but deplorable false to fact and record Perhaps our. New York at Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this error...
...Eighteenth Century Symphony Orchestra gave its last concert of the season in Jordan Hall last Tuesday evening, playing music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in costume of the period of Louis Quinze. This music makes a wide appeal both to the sophisticated taste that finds in it the charm of simplicity and naive freshness and to the uninitiate who seek only for beauty of melody in what they hear...
...comforting to think that in an age of radicalism Congress should stick by the old. The Senate can find no better precedents than the actions of the English parliaments of the seventeenth century. It is quite right in not proceeding too fast. The great American people must be educated slowly. They are not yet ready for such startling doctrines as the "infallibility of human testimony" and especially when it is backed by the Harvard Law School, no torious for its dangerously advanced views. "Slow but sure--sure to be slow" is an excellent motto for Congress just...