Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Modern Languages is strongly opposed by the writer we are quoting. He claims, that if the same scientific methods that are now used in teaching the classics, were employed with Modern Languages, the mental discipline afforded by the latter study would be as good as that of the former, or better. He cites the experience of the Germans to support his assertion. "German educators," he says, "have given Modern Languages an important place in their schools and gymnasia, and for the last two decades have been, thereby, rewarded with the most gratifying results in the general linguistic training of their...
...Chase, '82, a former editor of the Harvard Herald, is now in town...
There is a letter in the Nation of last week on the method of instruction of the late Prof. Eustis, which will be read with interest by all his former pupils...
...scarcely credible to believe that any such outrageous system of training as was practiced by all professionals fifteen years ago, should ever have been adopted by Harvard men. Rowing men of the present will shudder at the requirements of a captain of a crew in former years...
Storrow and Yocum have changed places on the 'Varsity, the former going to bow and the latter...