Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1935 will be the first to receive the new style of diplomas done in a seventeenth century motif, according to an announcement by Samuel E. Morison '09, professor of History, who is chairman of the committee in charge of revision. New designs will be drawn for other degrees as soon as the present supplies of these degrees are exhausted...
Mistress Eaton, the first Westcott of Harvard back in the seventeenth century, was finally cornered in her devious ways by a constipated student body; in the ensuing investigation, she admitted almost every accusation that was leveled against her decayed menu, but she denied, denied most energetically, that she had ever served ungutted fish or, pleasant thought, sheep's dung. So records Professor Morison in his Harvard History. What, Mr. Westcott, what are your denials? Frank E. Sweetser...
...free silver when the larger part of the collection of music was acquired, has this department received the recognition which it deserves. In consequence of this, the nineteenth century composers from Beethoven to Brahms are exceedingly well represented, but there are entire periods of great music, such as the seventeenth century, where the scarcity of the music works real hardship upon the Department...
HARRY A. FRANCK has written a new book of travel. It is his seventeenth, and will be avidly welcomed by thousands of members of the Franck Fireside Club. This time America's perennial rambler goes tourist for a thirty day excursion among the wonders of Sovietland from Leningrad to Tiflis, from Moscow to Odessa...
...their accents, which immediately put them out of character. Sancho Panza, in the person of George Robey, talks Cockney. And Carrasco with his Oxford lisp seems more the bespectacled grind than the heroic flance. These too noticeable incongruities make it difficult to imagine oneself in the Spain of the seventeenth century...