Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Review of Virgil" will be the subject of the next address, to be made by Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, headmaster of the Roxbury Latin School. The subsequent speeches are as follows: "The Stupidest of Losses," by Dr. Josiah Bridge '84, of Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn.; "Latin in Modern Education," by Dr. Payson Smith, commissioner of education for Massachusetts; "The Comprehensive Latin of the College Entrance Examination Board," by Professor Edward K. Rand '95, of the University. The meeting will be concluded with a lantern talk on "Athens Under the Turks," by Dr. James M. Paton '84, of Cambridge...
...Latin in Modern Education. Dr. Payson Smith, commissioner of education for Massachusetts...
According to the plan proposed, the first of these changes is designed to alter the examination which candidates must pass either before or after entering Cambridge and to make it more in line with the requirements of the modern world. In order to bring this about it has been proposed to abolish the necessity of candidates studying two classical languages. This, however applies only to the "ordinary" courses, as distinguished from the "honor" courses, the latter being for the more brilliant students...
...past lamentable failure in the speedy building of the indispensable implements of modern war, and of the great transport fleet which alone will enable us to utilize our giant strength after we have developed it, must merely spur us on to efficient action in the present and the future. To refuse to see and to point out these failures is both silly and unpatriotic...
...increasing value of a practical education has changed the scope of foreign colleges as well as American. Cambridge University intends to make its instruction more accessible by eliminating the knowledge of Greek as a prerequisite to admission. Some modern tongue will doubtless be substituted for the ancient. By revising its standards for entrance, this English institution sacrifices a precedent which has marked a long existence. For several centuries both Greek and Latin have been the very basis of a higher education, but now, because of changing conditions, either one is sufficient. Men who made England the power...