Word: nineteenths
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...command of the first colored regiment raised for service in the Civil War, he had some military experience of exceptional interest. In later life, as a many-sided man of letters, his relations with writers in both England and America were extraordinarily close and varied. Few Americans of the nineteenth century touched American life at more points than Colonel Higginson. With portrait and other illustrations. Cloth. 8vo. Published at $4.00. Houghton, Mifflin Co. Special Price...
...temper and to what degree shall they forsake their old aloofness? That they will forsake it is a foregone conclusion. It is as much beyond their power to step back into isolation as it is beyond the power of this century to return to conditions which ended with the nineteenth century. Forces still imperfectly realized have been set loose, which must draw the United States and Great Britain with them, and a blind refusal to recognize the fact will avail nothing. The times call for a courageous acceptance of things as they are, as a first condition of their eventual...
...third, University C; fourth, Freshman 1; fifth, 1920 A; sixth, 1920 B; seventh, Freshman 2; eighth, 1921 A; ninth, 1921 B; tenth, Freshman 3; eleventh, 1922 A; twelfth Freshman 5; thirteenth, 1922 B; fourteenth, Freshman 4; fifteenth, Freshman 6; sixteenth, Freshman 7; seventeenth, 1922 C; eighteenth, Freshman 8; nineteenth, Freshman 9; twentieth, 1921 C; twenty-first, Freshman 10. The eleventh Freshman and 1922 D did not row, so they must start at the bottom of the ladder...
...worry or more thought than Bolshevism. In every civilized country it is felt to be a menace which shakes the foundations of our society. Growing up in Russia as the result of a great revolution, it seems to have gathered all the threads from the radical movements of the nineteenth century, to boil them up, and then launch them forth again in streams of lava that have crept into every phase of modern life...
...elective system was made practically necessary by the huge expansion of the field of knowledge which took place in the nineteenth century. It was no longer possible to make any pretense that a four-year curriculum could supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above...