Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...After a prayer by Dr. Alexander McKenzie, the congregation read responsively the 33d Psalm. Dr. McKenzie next read from the Revised Version the parable of the "Ten Talents." The lesson of this parable is that a man should adapt himself to circumstances. The demands made upon a man by modern life are, notwithstanding all its appliances and inventions, much more severe than at any time in the past. A man should, therefore, strengthen himself and try to do his duty. There is no excitement in a race unless the contestants are well matched, and the pleasure of success is always...
...Henry Villard of New York; "The present political condition of Germany." Feb. 20-Prof. William T. Harris of Concord; "Modern German thought and its significance to English-speaking people." Feb. 27-Prof. Kuno Francke of Harvard; "Individualism as a force in German literature." March 6-Prof. Alfred A. Ripley of Boston; "Goethe as autobiographer." March 13-Mr. S. R. Koehler of the Boston Art Museum; "German engraving of the sixteenth century...
...Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn has a new gymnasium which is fitted out with all modern improvements...
James Russell Lowell has been elected president of the Modern Language Association of America...
...that time, with one or two of what we call voluntary studies, which were, I think, all in the modern languages, the general drift of the college required the same work from one man as it did from another. There was a good classical course, a good mathematical course, almost nothing in natural history, good teaching in the modern languages, and excellent training in English. The courses in political economy, metaphysics, and morals were interesting, though they did not go far. Such as they were, these were almost the same for everybody; one man might take Spanish and another Italian...