Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many changes. Messrs. Sumichrast and Sanderson have been appointed assistant professors in the French department, and Mr. von Jagemann who comes to his work here for the first time this year, has been made assistant professor in the German department. Mr. Grandgent, who taught in the department of modern languages last year, has left Harvard to take charge of the department of modern languages in the Boston schools. Among the instructors the changes have been very numerous...
...Only, strangely enough, by the death rate. Fifty years ago in England, competent officers were appointed in every parish to collect its vital statistics, and now the government publishes yearly a volume of about nine hundred pages, so accurately compiled that all inferences about the health of the modern world are based upon it. In Massachusetts the same system has been adopted and an excellent yearly report is now published. The national census is also rich in vital statistics for the years in which it is taken...
...year he took from these controversies and gave to his translation of the Bible, marvelous as a piece of literary and artistic work, the parent of modern literature...
...wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion has hardly been well understood. The Bible used to be thought of as a unity, but modern criticism has shown that it now contains several books which certainly did not originally form a part of it, but were the product of a separate school of religion with its own teachers and writers. These are the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs. Any intelligent reader will notice their...
...next annual convention of the Modern Language association will be held at Harvard during the Christmas holidays of this year. Announcements of papers that will be presened have reached the secretary of the convention from Professors Hunt (Princeton), Gummere (Haverford), Wright (Middlebury), Primer (Providence), Tolman (Ripon), Gerber (Earlham), Schmidt-Wartenberg (University of Deseret), Kent (University of Tennessee), Grandgent (Boston), Matzke (Bowdoin), Marcou (University of Michigan), Dodge (Columbia). Precise dates and definite place of the meeting will be given in the programme which will be issued shortly before the convention...