Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From appearances the men are in the best of physical condition. They have been trained since early in August on the old-style method, and the so called "modern" method certainly shows up at a disadvantage when the physical condition of the Harvard and Michigan teams is compared...
...There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern Greek composer is to be sung by a monster chorus. A great attendance by athletes and scholars from all the world is expected...
...social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces. Her grandfather. already mentioned, had been the first artistic poet of the modern age, and writing in a modern tongue, the Provincial. His work shows the development in Provence of an entirely new type of society, gathered about the numerous courts, and elaborating the theory of courtly life which was to become known in England as courtesy. The resulting social ideals, of which...
...love's utter obedience, which had been originally developed in Provence, and with his contemporaries of note spread on all sides from Trois the powerful influence of the Provencal moral ideals. Trois became the centre of that social discussion and imaginative production, which brought about the transition to the modern ideals of society standing in such sharp contrast to those in vogue before the period of the Middle Ages...
...educational experiment that starts at Yale this fall is the course in modern novels under Dr. William Lyon Phelps. The purpose of it is to teach students to read standard novels in such a way as to strengthen their faculties instead of debauching them. The course is popular, as might be expected. It would have rejoiced the heart of the late Professor Boyesen and encouraged that good man to hope that modern education was about to turn out novel readers sufficiently stout of heart and of stern enough discipline to tackle the tales of the American realists...