Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge historian Herbert Butter-field last night called the seventeenth century scientific revolution "the turning point in world history...
Speaking before an overflow crowd of 600, Butterfield criticized the modern tendency to credit the Renaissance with the origin of the modern world. "We have attributed to the Renaissance some of the things which only appeared in the seventeenth century," Butterfield maintained, "and several of the characteristics which were thought to be original with the Enlightenment actualy have their roots in the period from...
These farces come from Renaissance Spain, medieval France, and seventeenth century Denmark. This is almost enough to restore one's faith in the doctrine of progress: nearly everything good about the occasion is supplied by Eliot House, which is, after all, more or less of a twentieth century institution. Since, on top of everything else, the translations tend towards the unspeakable, it was actors and directors vs. plays all evening. I scored it a loss, a draw...
...more promising note, the freshman sextet stormed to its seventeenth victory by crushing Dartmouth, 10 to 4 in the afternoon. Al Alpine and Dave Morse led the attack with two goals each
...House have failed to satisfy the requirements, and that a significant amount of national publication, especially of the creative writing, has come out of the program (this includes two books, Children of the Ladybug, a play by Robert Thom; and The Flourishing Wreath, a critical study of the seventeenth century British poet Thomas Carew by Edward Selig...