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These changes are only another manifestation of the Harvard spirit. As everybody knows, the colossal changes, brought about chiefly by science in the nineteenth century, shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps...
...only object of college endowments. Colleges were homes for the life-study of the highest and most abstruse parts of knowledge. They, have become boarding schools in which the elements of the learned languages are taught to youths." When we read this indictment penned before the completion of the nineteenth century reform of Oxford we may well ask: If the intellectual division of labour which Newman advocated' and which still finds proponents in our own time is to be desired, why were the English universities in so unsatisfactory a condition? The accidents of time had destroyed the ancient function...
With more than two weeks at Red Top to pep them into shape, it is entirely possible that they may present a showing on the nineteenth of the month that will give the Blue a surprise...
...education, among them the first comprehensive program of business research in the United States, involving the collection and analysis of figures showing the margins, expenses, and profits of retail and wholesale business. As Professor of Economic History, since 1924, he has studied extensively the nature and results of the nineteenth century industrial revolution...
...truly fitting that the Gauguin exhibit should follow that of Van Gogh, for the two artists were kindred spirits in the world of art. Both at the end of the nineteenth century led the way out of the cramping formula of Impressionism and to both color was a means of expressing feeling and thought...