Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...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...
WANTED. - Next Autumn in a first-class boy's family school in California, a teacher of Modern Languages. Salary $750 and home. Also in the same school, a teacher of Sciences and Mathematics. Salary $1,000 and home. Harvard graduates desired. Apply in person to Hiram Orcutt, Manager...
...that its contents came to be what they are today. That the style in which the fiction is written should, in the the twenty-sixth anniversary number be dramatically sensational is due partly to the mere accidental make-up of the number, and partly to a general tendency of modern pictorial style which is not unworthy of more extended thought and discussion than can be given in these columns...
...general, when one looks over the early numbers of the Advocate and compares them with those of the present year one cannot help feeling that the style of the modern numbers is more artificial, than that of the earlier ones, and lacks some of the force that lies in the straightforward simplicity of the contribution of the last generation...