Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...need ought to have been recognized long ago by the German department and provided for. It is hard to understand how the German department of a great university can assume to teach the language without such courses. It is conversational courses which give practical value to instruction in the modern languages. The only way for the student to get into the real spirit of a modern language is by coming into actual contact with the living language itself. When he can make a language the means of oral communication of his own thought he begins to get at its real...
Prof. Shaler's new book, "Nature and Man in America" is an admirable exposition of the latest views of modern science on the relations of organic life to its environment, treated not in the method of scientific treatises, but in an easy collonial style. In the first part of the book the author traces the effects that geological changes have had upon organic life and especially upon the human race, and in doing so gives an epitome of the geological history of our continent. In the second part he speculates upon the political bearing which the geographical features have...
...Before modern methods of transportation had practically destroyed all natural barriers, areas isolated by natural features were adapted to be the cradle of permanent and strong races. Europe is peculiarly divided up into such areas, hence the large number of its political divisions and the fixedness of the race characteristics of the separate peoples. North America on the other hand, is unfitted to be the cradle-place of different peoples, for it is in the main, a geographical unit...
...isolation of the British on this continent between the coast on the east and the practically impassable Appalachians on the west may be attributed the great development of maritime pursuits. As these barriers have been broken down by modern methods, and new fields thrown open, commerce has been more and more neglected...
...constructive problems with which the modern builder has to deal properly considered as architectural? (Professor Hamlin: "The Difficulties of Modern Architecture," in "The Architectural Record" for the quarter ending December 31, 1891; Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture...