Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...night in Boylston Hall. His first subject was Windsor Castle, the usual residence of the present queen. Many parts of the castle have been greatly changed but there are some portions still, which date back as far as Henry the Third. The upper portions of the castle are mostly modern, although there is one tower built in Henry the Third's time, and known as "Henry the Third's Tower...
...lovers of the modern school of music had in the Sanders Theatre concert last evening a programme just suited to their tastes. From beginning to end it was a programme of modern composers...
...Modern Language Conference. Lecture by Professor C. S. Smith of Collumbia College: The Scandinavian form of the Nibelungen legend. Sever...
...first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...
However, as the word hypocracy really means "acting" without any idea of deceit, we may apply the word to ourselves, remembering its original significance. The whole tendency of modern life, is compelling one to a sort of hypocrisy, or "acting;" not a conscious thing necessarily, but a way of presenting ourselves to people as we wish to be thought of, and not as we really are. This "acting" has crept by degrees into everything in daily life, and even into our religion. Men actually deceived themselves that they can play a part, so to speak, even before God Himself...