Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also voted to abandon the distinction between elementary and advanced history. Modern European history, including English (as defined in the report of the Committee of Five of the American Historical Association) will be accepted as an additional unit of history for admission to College, it being understood that it may not be counted by candidates who have already received credit for Mediaeval and Modern History or for English History...
...Deutscher Verein, the oldest modern language club in the University, presents as its nineteenth annual play, "Der Hypochonder" ("The Hypochonderiac") in Jordan Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. "Der Hypochonder" is an exceedingly humorous farcical comedy by Gustav von Moser, the author of "Der Blibliothekar," better known on the American stage as "The Private Secretary," which has already been produced by the Deutscher Verein...
...essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...
...rest her players between the two final games; if a game is worth playing at all it is worth playing with the best one has. But a revised schedule, which would put a less vigorous game in between the two final games for both Princeton and Yale, would meet modern conditions and be much fairer to both than the present one-sided arrangement can ever...
...much dramatic consistency shown as is necessary and thorough sagacity in the arrangement of the dialogue. One rule which has been wisely followed is that of moderation and restraint, and the result is that the taste of caricature and burlesque of some twentieth century humans wins. The modern business man and his family receive a goodly share of these taps, which are pleasantly dealt, losing nothing because they are not venomous...