Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such time as the island may become self-supporting again, the administration of the island should be vested in His Excellency the Governor acting on the advice of a specially...
That the modern College Board examinations are extremely easy compared with the seventeenth century entrance requirements for Harvard was brought to light by the recent discovery of a volume entitled, "New England's First Fruits," published in 1643 in London. It contained a brief description of the University and a list of the "Rules and Precepts that are observed in the College." The first three rules are quoted below...
...accordance with another custom, the Freshmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries furnished "Batts, Balls, and Foot Balls" for the use of the students. Throwing anything across the Yard, or playing football or "any other game" therein was forbidden...
...seems to have stopped with the slight fine imposed by Danforth in his capacity as justice of the peace. It is due to the investigation made necessary by the more serious scandals concerning the activities of Mary Ruggles, Hannah Arrington, and their accomplices, that we owe these records of seventeenth century Freshmen, their experiments with liquor, and the college's attitude toward...
...realism. Mr. Strauss' "Of Harvard Bondage" is written four or five times in the first week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...