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...February, Elgin finds that she takes a course on Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century, and he transfers to that class where, at last, they meet...
...unquestionably the most engaging show since Merlin. He is rivalled, however, by another barker, Associate Professor Seymour ("And that's Rembrandt--more of him later: but now, tell you what I'm gonna do") Slive who offers this term a course on the dutch painters of the seventeenth century (Fine Arts...
Before the ceremony, Fitzpatrick and Suffolk County Sheriff Frederick R. Sullivan '27 will lead the academic procession into the Tercentenary Theatre, both dressed in seventeenth century costumes, complete with sword and scabbard...
...even more startling, almost embarrassing, is Toynbee's attempt to rationalize his personal deficiencies. His cumbersome style, "my Latinizing way of writing English," he attributes to "my classical education." He also confesses, oddly for a historian, that he is "almost entirely ignorant of modern Western discoveries, from the seventeenth century onwards, in the fields of mathematics and physical science. This is indeed a big blank . . . In my knowledge of the non-Hellenic civilizations and the higher religions there are appalling gaps. And my knowledge of the aeons of history before these last 5,000 years is little better than...
...Glee Club who are for the Club's tour of the Far East traveled to Washington, D.C. the weekend to "surprise" President F. Kennedy '40, at the seventeenth dinner of the Radio and Television Association...