Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...commerce from its earliest days-of the transactions of Abraham and Joseph; of the Semitic and Arabian trades-instancing Saul of Tarsus as the first Christian commercial traveler, of the commercial relations of Rome, Venice and Geneva, of the business supremacy of the Medici family in Florence. As modern examples of able business men who have achieved success in other directions are Alexander Hamilton, Warren Hastings, John Bright, William E. Gladstone. There have been no notions which have become strong and influential without commerce...
...boats for the Weld boat house are getting along finely. Mr. Davy has five lap-streaked four oars. This week he will have three singles finished. The four oars are nicely built and wellrigged in the modern manner. All five have exactly the same lines so that they can be used by crews to row against each other. The sliding seats are of the Kerns pattern and work splendidly while the outriggers are fitted with the Kerns pins. Mr. Blaikie has finished two singles and one double-scull of the kind called "compromise" boats. Of this pattern also...
...simple and this state of things is probably the foundation of the internal peace and content that has so long reigned in that country. The complicated and grinding tax system sowed the seeds of decay in ancient Rome, a fact upon which few historians have laid much stress. In modern times, to us the most famous rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that the heroes they...
Professor Van Dael, instructor in Modern Languages at the Institute of Technology, will lecture to the class in French I. on Moliere next Friday, March 21, at 9 a. m. in Sever...
...recent number of the Modern Language Notes has a biographical notice of Professor Sumichrast of this university. Professor Sumichrast began his career as a teacher in Scotland, and subsequently resided in London whence he came to Canada in 1870 to fill the chair of Modern Languages at King's College University, Nova Scotia. He has since been registrar of the University of Halifax, Governor of King's College University, and has held numerous other important positions. He has contributed largely to the periodical press and has written notes to works by Corneille, Racine, Ponsard, Dumas, Legouve, Sandean, Halevy, Peyrebrune, Enault...