Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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3tThe meeting of the Seminary in Modern History and Diplomacy, is postponed, to Friday, April...
...contrived to get more out of the steam than heretofore by cutting off the stroke. The mechanism and working of the steam indicator, the planimeter and the sliding and rocking valves were all illustrated by charts and drawings. The lecture closed with a description of the different kinds of modern steam engines...
Four years is the time in which the new Scientific course proposes to give a good education, where the leading place shall be given to natural science and the modern languages. Students are admitted to this course without Greek and without Latin, if they can offer a good year's work in French and German Latin is provided in maximum and minimum amounts, the maximum being required if the student takes up the study after entrance. Two years of German are required in the scientific department, and the student must be able to read French. The student must choose during...
...education will extend a hearty welcome to the reforms adopted by Amherst. These steps are all in the direction of a diminution of prescribed classics and of greater freedom in the choice of electives. The change from the old school to the new is shown in the way that modern languages receive some of the attention which before was bestowed upon Greek and Latin. The importance of English composition, too, is happily being emphasized. The reforms are moreover extended beyond the academic course and made to apply also to the scientific course. While scientific studies are made most important...
...March 28. - The modern Historical Method; its History and its Application...