Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tuesday, January 19.- The Function of the Modern Secondary School...
...attention to the opportunity offered us by the subscription-list now at the University Bookstore, to contribute to the Memorial to Sir Walter Scott about to be placed in Westminster Abbey. Scott has probably given more wholesome pleasure to people who love reading than has any other writer of modern times. That he has not yet been given his place in the Abbey, which already contains memorials to Longfellow and to Lowell, is an accident hard to explain. The circumtances of the memorial now proposed are such that very small subscriptions are more to be desired than large ones...
...Faculty this year are in the main the same as last year, but there have been some changes. The George B. Sohier prize of two hundred and fifty dollars is for the first time offered for the best thesis presented by a candidate for honors in English or in modern literature. This is open to all undergraduates and resident graduates in the Graduate School, and also to students of Radcliffe College...
...Modern Realstic Drama in Germany...
Professor Chamberlain began his lecture by pointing out that the modern inventive activity of man has long been foreshadowed among primitive peoples. There has been something of mechanical skill in them all, and this instinct has in many cases been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing...