Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Signet," and also president of the evangelical religious society, "The Christian Brethren." Graduating with honors in Philosophy, he was given a place on the commencement stage, and was also made Phi Beta Kappa marshal of his class for the day. His commencement oration, on "The Modern Worship of Culture," was a brilliant and caustic arraignment of the tendencies at Harvard which militate against the higher life; Mr. Hyde next passed two years at Union Seminary; then, after a year's further study, was graduated at Andover in 1882, his commencement thesis there being "Tauler and the Mystics." He pursued...
Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. John Orne. Subject: The Modern Arabic Press. No. 7 Lowell Street...
Divinity School Chapel. Conference. Subject: Public Worship; its place in Modern Life...
...learn the tricks of the trade and how to be generally useful. This is the main deck." - It was broad and very smooth and clean and sunny - "These old guns are not much use now; they're muzzle loading smooth bores and would stand no chance against a modern iron-clad; those two on the other side are breech loading steel guns, and are used for salutes." Tables were placed between the guns, and at each was a crowd of fine specimens of the American marine, some playing dominoes, some writing letters and some reading. Above from the beams were...
Quite a large audience assembled in Sever 6 last evening, to listen to the reading of Mr. Dana's dissertation. To appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought...