Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Announcement was made at Yale today that arrangements had been completed with owners of private dormitories whereby all members of the freshman classes would be withdrawn from and accommodated in the university dormitories. This is possible for the first time in the fifty years since Yale began its modern expansion. At least the freshman class of the college or academic department has been housed in private dormitories and boarding houses and a lucrative business on the part of their proprietors has grown up which will be killed by the recent faculty action forbidding freshmen to room in them. Two large...
This year some fifty men from the University will be Instructors in evening courses, teaching the following subjects: English for foreigners, Reading and Spelling, Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mechanical and Architectural Drawing, Physics and Electricity, Chemistry, Public Speaking and Debating, Commercial Courses, Civil Service. Latin, Hebrew, Modern Languages, and English Literature...
...Modern Languages, Professor Kittredge, 9 to 12.30, Warren House, 2.30 to 4.30, 8 Hilliard street...
...difficulty has been increased by the intense competition of modern industrial life, where the margin of profit is very small and depends upon a close scrutiny of expenditure and revenue,--a scrutiny which the manager feels keenly, but the scattered owners and the public fail to comprehend. Corporations have enabled small property owners to co-operate in vast concerns, and have rolled up huge aggregations of capital, capable of increasing wealth and exerting power for good and harm on an unprecedented scale; but they have made those owners, in most cases, absentees, with all the evils of absentee-proprietorship...
...work in the world it seems strange to speak on such a sordid theme as the care of property, let it be remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming...