Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Wise Benjamin Franklin urged his contemporaries to master the modern languages before tackling Latin or Greek. Now, after nearly two centuries, prominent educators are taking up the same cry in their attack upon the continuance of compulsory Latin in our schools...
...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...
...March 20. On the 22d and 23d, "The School of Palestine" will be given; on the 26th and 27th, "The Early Madrigals"; on the 29th and 30th, "Bach"; on April 2 and 3, "Handel"; on the 5th and 6th, "The 19th Century Composers"; and on the 9th and 10th, "Modern French Composers and Russian Church Music...
...Curran and H. A. Calkins, "The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire"; W. W. Gibson, "Battle and Other Poems" and "Livelihood"; J. F. Harris, "Samuel Butler"; W. H. Hudson, "The Purple Land"; H. H. Knibbs, "Riders of the Stars"; E. H. Knows, "Play Production in America"; G. H. Mair, "Modern English Literature"; W. de la Mare, "The Listeners and Other Poems"; A. B. Maurice, "The New York of the Novelists"; Helen McAfee, "Pepys on the Restoration Stage"; Patrick McGill, "The Red Horizon"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Hillman"; Arthur H. Quinn, "Representative American Plays"; Thomas H. Reed, "Form and Functions of American...