Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paine Prizes have been established in order to stimulate research in modern social questions, One prize will be assigned for the best original investigation of some form of charity work, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. The other prize will be assigned for the best original investigation on some special phase of the labor question, with practical conclusions drawn therefrom. These prizes are open to any student of any department of the University...
...meetings of the Modern Language Convention were held at New Haven during Christmas week, the members being entertained by the Yale Classical Club. Officers were elected as follows: President, Charles H. Grandgent; vice-president, Geo. L. Kittredge of Harvard; secretary, Eugene H. Babbitt of Columbia; treasurer, Lewis F. Mott, of New York University...
...Talvande believes, the result of our bad system of moral education in our primary and secondary schools, but of the idleness, the futility, the licentiousness, the egotism, the superciliousness, of too many members of this so-called nobility, who have learned absolutely nothing from the great revolution and from modern social evolution. Second, that the education to be obtained in the schools, lycees and universities of the French Republic, is infinitely more thorough, broader, more liberal, more moral than the narrow, loose and sectarian education of the religious orders and especially of Jesuits, who have been so vigorously and justly...
...most important of the Christmas books is a work on "The Makers of Modern Rom," by Mrs. Oliphant, beautifully illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Briton Riviere. In it Mrs. Oliphant does for Rome what she has already done so successfully for Florence and Venice, and completes a series of striking value and interest...
...Modern Language Conference. 1. The Friar's Lantern. Professor Kittredge.- 2. Mr. E. H. Babbitt's Paper on Common Sense in Teaching Modern Languages. Professor Sheldon.- 3. The English Possessive Termination after Sibilants. Professor Sheldon. Sever...