Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Caen and Rouen, the two capitals of Normandy. The views of the old churches in these places were excellent. Professor Cooke called especial attention to the different styles of architecture, and throughout his lecture contrasted the old Norman and Gothic designs of the abbeys and monasteries with the more modern style of the additions. His remarks on the various resting places of the Norman Dukes as well as the English Kings were very humorous...
...next meeting of the Modern Language Conference, Professor Chas. Sprague Smith of Columbia College is to speak on some topic connected with Scandinavian literature. Professor Smith, it will be remembered, lectured at Harvard last year on Iceland, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein...
Students are warned to beware of a man purporting to represent the Haskell Publishing Company and selling a set of books on Grand Modern Pain...
...College Kodaks" are by no means scintillating, although the pen-picture of the Holworthy man's High School girl, "fancy-free in modern-maiden meditation of geometry and Cicero" has a certain charm of expression...
Besides this centralization of harmony upon the tonic note, the grasp of compositions as chord sequences which is characteristic of modern music-listening has led to a demand for relationship by common notes between successive chords and to a greatly extended use of the resolution of discord. These changes are evidence of a capacity for growth in the art to which it seems impossible to set limits...