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...mid-19th century the boards battled over the appointment of the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Though the state legislature sided with the Overseers, the Corporation would not concede any of its power, and won out. Since that time, according to a 1978 report by the University's Committee on the Structure and Function of the Overseers, the Board has had "a formal 'consent' or 'allowance' role in certain fairly infrequent, major policy determinations...
...until he conceived his "Experiences" three years ago (first Haydn, then Beethoven) that the Oxford-born, Cambridge-educated musician achieved his current eminence. Norrington's contribution to the original-instruments movement is to push its boundaries forward from the Baroque and Classical periods into the mid-19th century. "Modern orchestras sometimes don't play Beethoven very well," he observes, "but they generally play Berlioz very well indeed. So it was a real risk...
...economy has long based its prosperity in large part on the free flow of capital across international borders. In the mid-19th century, European investments helped finance the building of America's railroads, essential for opening up the West. Later, Europeans put their money into American ranching, farming and mining. After the turn of the century, foreigners helped buttress one of the most powerful companies of the era, U.S. Steel, by buying up fully 25% of its equity...
...speculation on how the game actually got to America. Pravda believes it was stolen by a Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow who scurrilously wheedled details of lapta out of an unwary Russian cook during an evening of illicit and probably drug-induced lovemaking sometime during the mid-19th century...
Child care has always been an issue for the working poor. Traditionally, they have relied on neighbors or extended family and, in the worst of times, have left their children to wander in the streets or tied to the bedpost. In the mid-19th century the number of wastrels in the streets was so alarming that charity-minded society ladies established day nurseries in cities around the country. A few were sponsored by employers. Gradually, local regulatory boards began to discourage infant care, restrict nursery hours and place emphasis on a kindergarten or Montessori-style instructional approach. The nurseries became...