Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...painting in the 17th century. For of them, loaned by Mr. Pierre la Rose '95 are attributed to Claude Lorraine and afford an opportunity, unusual in this country, of studying in examples of varied range and feeling the work of this master, who has been called the "father of modern landscape...
...Military Problem of the United States" will be the subject of the address which Robert Matteson Johnston, assistant professor of modern history, will give before a meeting of the International Polity Club in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this address in which he will deal especially with the question of the necessary size of a standing army and the best methods for establishing it, is of particular interest t this time when the University and other educational institutions throughout the country are being called upon to voice their opinions on this vital national question...
Latin and Greek are to be discarded, but the older children are to be familiarized with ancient thought and literature through translations. Formal grammar will be dispensed with except as special need of it may be felt. The emphasis is to be on science and modern languages. A good deal of attention will be paid to the fine arts, not with the idea of training poets, musicians and painters, but in order that pupils may enjoy poetry, music and painting...
...many years Dr. Abraham Flexner has been trying to make a practical experiment of his advanced ideas about modern education. At last the General Education Board has arranged with the Teachers College of Columbia University to create a school for the education of young children according to Dr. Flexner's principles. The New York Times regards this as a most dangerous attack against the present accepted system of education. Whether this experiment will imperil our entire educational structure is a question, but it is a progressive step and one that should be watched with great interest...
...most radical part of the new school's program is the disappearance of Latin and Greek, and the attempt to make translations of the classics serve the same purpose. Modern languages, science, industry, and the domestic arts will have the most important places in the new curriculum. The orthodox leaders of the present educational methods already have expressed their horror at the introduction of these innovations...