Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seventeenth annual convention of the Young Men's Christian Association will be held in Charlestown, Oct. 10 - 12. Wednesday, Oct. 11, will be state day, when the report of the year's work will be made, and questions pertaining to its continuance discussed. In the evening college work will be presented by students from Yale, Amherst, Williams and Princeton, upon which occasion a quartette from the Yale College Glee Club will sing. St. Paul's Society and the Christian Brethren will be represented...
...that the course is not included among those counted for honors in Political Science. The course is certainly one that should be taken by every person who wishes to devote himself to politics. The constitutional history of England is as important to a politician as European history during the seventeenth century, and it is surprising that while Roman Law is one of the courses required, a course on English constitutional history should be omitted. There are many men who have taken six or nine honors in History, including History 8, who would try for honors in this department if this...
...introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage and the means of gaining a livelihood. With Sir Robert Walpole the Augustan age of English literature ceased, and authorship became so precarious...