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Informed analysts agreed that the Senator's mind, by a curious quirk of evolution, had reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...
While the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance was below par last Friday night, the chief disappointment of Henry Swoboda's final appearance conducting the HRO was the quality of the program he selected. He played the same nineteenth century music, sometimes camouflaged by the names of composers from other centuries, that has characterized his two years here: and he compounded it with real, and bad, nineteenth century maunderings...
Winners for the Crimson were Jim Campen, Bob Seelert and John Hawkins. Number-one man Campen took a 1 up victory on the nineteenth hole. Seelert and Hawkins won by scores of 1 up and 3 and 2 respectively...
...time a seminal work; its premises were more exhaustively treated in The New England Mind and other, better-known articles. The Whittier essay, first given as a lecture at Swarthmore College, conveys some of the charm of Miller's lecture style even while it re-locates Whittier in the nineteenth century literary scene...
...distinction was made between them and such people as Irish and Welsh indentured servants. A whole generation passed, he said, before the greater cultural difference of the Negroes and the involuntary nature of their servitude caused them to be distinguished from other slaves, and it was not until the nineteenth century that the identity of "Negro" with "slave" was established...