Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Modern Language Conference. An Analogue to Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. Professor Kittredge.- Lessing and Diderot. Mr. C. H. Page.- A word of Goethe about himself. Professor Francke. Sever...
...Romans. The man had to be 14 years old and the girl 12. The consent of both fathers as well as that of the bride had to be obtained and the parties could not be near relations. The betrothal was somewhat of the nature of a modern contract, there being witnesses to sign the papers and a certain amount of money being given to the man as a pledge of good faith. In after years this money was replaced by an iron ring, this being the origin of the modern engagement ring. Immediately after the betrothal there was a grand...
...Department of Ethics, in charge of Professor Phelix Adler, Ph. D. He will give a course of eighteen lectures on the System of Applied Ethics, including a brief survey of the various schemes of classification adopted in ancient and modern ethical systems, the discussion of the relation of religious to moral instruction, of the development of the conscience in the child, etc. The Scheme of Duties treated will embrace Personal Ethics, Social Ethics in general, the Ethics of the family, the Ethics of the Professions, the Ethics of Politics, the Ethics of Friendship, the Ethics of Religious Association. The Scheme...
...beautiful melody for the oboe, taken up by the violins, and then changing to a subject employing the whole orchestra. In the second, In the Hammock, the pricipal theme is introduced by the clarionet and worked out by the strings. The two pieces are excellent examples of the modern French school, unpretentious and not deep, but pleasing and melidious with rich instrumentation...
...Modern Discovery" is an excellent character study of one Vandeleur, a cultivated man and an artist of thirty-five whose chief idiosyncracy-and a pardonable one-is a passionate love for the college surroundings and conditions of life...