Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Upton's Money and Politics, 70 cents; March magazines; Merry Men and Other Tales; Franklin in France; Silsbee's Half Century in Salem; Cairne's Leading Principles of Political Economy; May's Constitutional History of England; Bright's English History, Vol. III.; Lodge's Modern Europe; Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary; Chardenal's Second French Course; Black's La France...
...follow the editorials, exceptionally strong and much to the point. A very amusing story, "Aloft on the Dorothy Bell," comes next, and then a selection of Daily Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter...
March 28 - Chanson de Roland. (Reading in modern French from the old French text.) Professor Cohn...
...duties of every-day life. It is so even in religion. Religion is everywhere seeking ingress to the heart of man, and the knowledge of Christ is ready for those who are willing to search. The door is open, but no one enters. We can liken to this our modern discoveries. The knowledge of electricity, of the telegraph and telephone has been knocking from time immemorial at the minds of men; but it was not until some great man threw open the doors of his intellect to these things, and gave them ingress, that they became known to the world...
...help being amazed at the thought of this vast array of learning being crammed into a three years' course, but it is probable that the studies were very superficial, for we have evidence that the education afforded by the early college by no means equalled that furnished by the modern preparatory school...