Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...never to be overlooked, and yet the evil of the system is far less than its good. It places before every student the opportunity of enlarging himself where the fullest growth is possible, it tends to the economy of mental power, and is certainly the characteristic of the modern idea of education. It has added richly to Harvard's reputation that she has been the pioneer for this country in the introduction of the system...
...Engineering Society was addressed last evening by Mr. A. H. Johnson on "Railroad Signalling." The lecture was given in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and was well attended. After a few introductory remarks the speaker gave a short history of railroad signalling and then proceeded to illustrate the modern methods of signalling. The immense strides which have recently been made in this work are mostly due to the application of electricity. If an equal amount of progress can be made in the next few years, a railway accident will practically become an impossibility...
...present the proper time. (1) Several years required for the building and equipment of a modern war vessel. (2) Cost of building very low at present...
...poets of the seventeenth century; like Donn and Carew, but above all like Crashaw. In every verse of Thompson's we see the intellect at work, and whatever he does he spiritualizes. That Thompson is not always seventeenth century is shown in his poem "Daisy," as sweet, simple and modern as anything we find in contemporary poetry...
...virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never...