Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor C. B. Stetson has tendered his resignation as a member of the faculty of Phillips-Exeter Academy. He has been teacher in ancient languages for the past six years...
...second paper on "Private Life in Ancient Rome" by Harriet W. Preston and Louise Dodge, keeps up the high standard set by the first...
...number of men taking respective courses, either elected or prescribed, and on the estimate held by college authorities of these courses. They give, however, a fair notion of the tendencies developed; and from 1825, the date of the first report issued, show an uninterrupted progress from the ancient to the modern, and from realms of fact to realms of thought...
...this year of 1825 more than one-third the college course was spent on Greek and Latin; Mathematics occupied almost another third; history, mostly ancient, and philosophy, religiously ethical, took up a large share of the remainder. The study of English was about on a parity with the study of Hebrew. Natural Science and political economy barely gained a place in the catalogue, while the modern languages as subjects of study, were unheard...
...plainly to be seen, and the progress since that time is almost revolutional. Greek and Latin then had one-fourth the time; now less than one-tenth, and mathematics have been reduced to a considerably smaller figure still. The modern languages are now twice as much studied as the ancient, while natural science recieves four times as much attention as mathematics...