Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stagg will give an illustrated lecture on the "Modern Athlete," Dec. 17, at New Britain...
Raymond Weeks '90 has an article on Phonetics in the December number of Modern Language Notes...
...copies, or only poorer copies, were owned by the college. Webster on Witchcraft, though made interesting by its its former owner, is by no means the most valuable of the volumes that will come to the college under this clause of Mr. Lowell's will. His collections of modern Spanish and Italian literature were exceptionally full, and his library contained a most curious and interesting shelf of books on the black arts of magic and witchcraft. Many interesting presentations will come to the college. The whole collection is now being examined, and will be freely drawn upon...
...game, it is said, may have been played in America long before it appeared in Europe, since the Washoe Indians of Nevada have a species of it, but the ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans...
...Ballade," Mr. McCulloch gives a masterly dissertation on the history of this form of verse and of its masters, dwelling particularly upon Guillaume de Machault, Charles d' Orleans, and Francois Villon, the greatest of them all, who certainly has not been equalled in modern times...