Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hapgood discusses "Carlyle's Estimate of the Eighteenth Century." He does not agree with Carlyle that it was a "decrepit, death-sick era," when Addison, Defoe, Richardson founded the essay, the newspaper, the novel, when Burns, Goethe, Schiller were enriching poetry; when science was making enormous strides under the impulse of Franklin, Newton, Herschel. The writer concludes with a comparison of "Carlyle's harsh estimate" with "Mr. Lecky's admirable summary...
...study which is by no means clear to the popular mind. It has as its object to give man a knowledge of himself. In early times men were disgraced as atheists who attempted investigations into the mysteries of their origin, and it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that enough facts had been obtained on this subject to found a system of knowledge. But then men began to make researches and new facts were discovered every year. In 1859 Darwin wrote his "Origin of Species," a work which was formed of the new science. For ten years...
...secured over fifty photographs. Fourteen telescopes and cameras were employed besides eight spectroscopes. The first contact was lost through clouds. The other three were observed at a duration of 11.8 seconds. Eight negatives were secured with a thirteen inch telescope, giving images two inches in diameter; nine with an eighteenth camera. Twenty-five negatives were taken to measure the brightness of the corona and surrounding; five negatives to search for inter-Mercurial planets; twenty to study the spectrum of the corona. They will reach from yellow rays to extreme ultra violet. Seven observations were made with photometer measure. The general...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity, last evening, by a congregation who came to hear the Rev. Brooke Herford preach. He took as his subject the sacredness of law, and selected the text from the eighteenth verse of Psalm CXIX. He said that the sacredness of law was observable, primarily, in human affairs. All earthy conditions submit to law, else chaos and confusion ensue. Hence we should render a willing loyalty. Dr. Herford said that freedom was overdone in this country because there is so little reverence for law as law. Many yield to authority since they know...
...Amherst kicked from the twenty-five yard line, and Sears, getting the ball, carried it to the thirty-yard line, where he lost it. Amherst was forced back fifteen yards when, attempting to kick, the full-back lost the ball, and Davis dropping on it, scored the eighteenth touchdown for Harvard. Time 24 minutes. Sears' goal was not allowed on account of off side play. Three minutes later Sears, getting the ball from Amherst's kick, scored the last touch down for Harvard. No goal. Score, 102-0. When time was called, Harvard had the ball down in the middle...