Word: merovingian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneducated. It is the capacity to use facts and see their relations. Thus among Harvard undergraduates who are keenly alive to the present, those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses, and sifting of facts, however, bring out certain significant relations, and the earnest student begins to see more clearly some...