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...unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas and coddled its greatest villains...
...vein of Main Street, Winesburg, Ohio explores the frustrations and loneliness of people living in a small town at the turn of the twentieth century; a typical character, married to the wrong man, cries: “I wanted to run away from everything, but I wanted to run towards something...
Wharton asserts that the construction of Duke University reflects the cultural assumptions of the early twentieth century, of men’s space as a place of learning and women’s space as a place of respectability and etiquette. While Harvard and Radcliffe Yards are not nearly as polarized in design as Duke University, nearly every building in the College still archives the history of Harvard’s great alumni—male alumni...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Mozart Society Orchestra presents its twentieth anniversary concert with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. The organization features distinguished conductor and music director Akiko Fujimoto in her second year at the helm. Students $6. 8 p.m. Paine Hall, 3 Kirkland Street...
...Divinity School, Pusey said, “Let me state as a personal conviction that though our predecessors in President Eliot’s generation were unquestionably men of great faith, their faith will not do for us, if for no other reason, because events of the Twentieth Century have made its easy optimism unpalatable...