Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greedy eyes cast at the Papal lands. He, too, must cut the figure of a ruler, intimidate the Kings and Emperors. In 1864 he issued his famed Syllabus Errorum which declared all current naturalism and rationalism error, and put the papacy in opposition to the leading principles of modern civilization. It was not enough. Pius IX called an Ecumenical Council for 1870 to provide "an adequate remedy to the disorders intellectual and moral of Christendom." There had been only 19 Councils before, the last previous one being the Council of Trent...
...expected. The present bishop is the Right Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He is 59 and long married. His fondness for golf and fishing proclaim him a philosophic gentleman. But an irruption from him last fortnight revealed the length to which a modern churchman, however anciently hallowed his setting, may let himself go when oppressed by the wickedness of the times. Bishop Furse was moved to speak out about divorce and about persons unbaptized. These matters had been rankling until the Bishop sounded shrill and frenzied. Said he: "I have given instructions...
...sculptors created ideal, wholly impersonal types of physical perfection. When this sculpture filtered into Rome, puissant Roman sculptors were dissatisfied with merely copying the Greeks. Realists, they chiselled the seamed, tense, virile faces of the men who built Rome, who strove for justice and power rather than beauty. In modern sculpture both these tendencies are visible. Modern sculptors of character, Roman in tradition, sometimes meet a subject with Roman attributes...
Although it is announced that there is to be no change in the present language requirements the new rule cannot but lead to a different situation for men in college. For some time a reading knowledge of Latin has been accepted in place of one of the two modern languages, and in fulfillment of this the Cp 4 admission examination has been accepted in place of the reading knowledge test in college. Now that four years of French or German can be offered before admission, a logical step would permit all the reading knowledge requirements to be anticipated by good...
Hitherto a student who might have desired to take a modern language in his final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...