Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prof. G. W. Kittredge, Modern Languages, A. M. Warren House; P. M., 8 Hilliard...
...Mitchell also contributes an essay. "Montaigne and the Modern Age" is a dignified defence of the spirit of scepticism. Cynicism and scepticism figure in this issue of the Monthly College men seem at times to fear sentiment and as a result they are apt to plunge to the other extreme. But Mr. Mitchell's essay is not of this type. His arguments and ideas are thoroughly sincere and well worked out in a spirit of toleration much needed in these troublous times...
...last number of the Advocate is as plotless as a modern musical comedy; from cover to cover there is no trace of a story...
...field of art and architecture, Professor W. C. Sabine's forthcoming book on Acoustics is perhaps the most notable. There are works dealing with many branches of modern science and mathematics, and on philosophy and religion...
...purposes for which the School was established are, in short, as follows: (1) to teach modern medicine and surgery to the Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinest government in hygienic reform; and (3) to study all the diseases peculiar to the Orient, such as bubonic plague, cholera, and leprosy. That the School is accomplishing the first of these aims is certain, for it now has 23 students engaged in active study and a faculty of ten instructors. As to the accomplishment of the last two it is as yet too early to say, except that there...