Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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George C. Howland, Amherst '85, instructor in modern languages...
...convention held in January, of the Church Students' Missionary Association, a Japanese who addressed the meeting said that the danger to Japan seems to be at present from skepticism. Missionaries do not find their greatest opponent in any national heathen religion but from the modern doubt to which young Japan is inclined. There is at present only one Christian in the country to every 500 unbelievers. It seems better to educate natives for mission work than to bring in foreign missionaries, although of course the latter are very useful. But natives can accomplish more, and schools for their instruction...
Prof. W. I. Knapp who has held the Street professorship of modern languages at Yale since 1879, has resigned his chair and accepted an offer from Chicago University. He will remain at Yale until the end of the college year, and then spend a year in Europe and the east before entering on his duties in Chicago...
William I. Knapp, Ph.D., LL. D., Street professor of modern languages in Yale University, has resigned his profesship in the university and is to take charge of a similar department in the new Chicago University under President William R. Harper...
...graduate of Harvard. He graduated from Dartmouth, and in 1875 received from there a degree of D. B. For a long time Dr. Tucker has been connected with the Andover Theological School; and at present beholds a professorship there. He is one of the most prominent of the modern liberal Congregationalists, and is well known as a speaker of great ability...