Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Representative Men and Issues of Modern Philosophy, Lecture IX: The Rise of the Philosoply of Evolution. Professor Royee, Sanders theatre...
...very gratifying for those who watch with interest and pride Harvard's advance to the highest University grade to notice the number of seminaries and conferences which, according to the calendar, take place here this week. Last evening there were important meetings in the Modern Language, History and Science departments at which the results of advanced individual research were presented and discussed. Tonight there is a similar meeting in the Geological department, while in numerous other ones, such as in that of Classical Philology and of Philosophy, though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work...
...Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan and similar colleges." For all this no proposition has been made to increase the requirements for admission. He argues that since in the new course as well as in the old a student may go through college and get an A. B. without knowing ancient or modern languages, mathematics, history or philosophy, the Harvard degree will become the least significant in New England. He further argues that the proposed change is nowhere demanded. American students, (even those at Cambridge) do not want it; neither do the Harvard alumni, or authorities of other American colleges, or the preparatory...
...first Modern Language Conference will take place this evening, a fact to which we wish to call particular attention. It is one of the prime objects of an institution like Harvard to seek out and make known facts of all kinds which the ordinary student has neither the time nor the ability to investigate; this series of conferences has been organized with the double purpose of offering a chance for special research students in modern languages to make the results of their work public, and of bringing these students and their instructors more closely together. The Conference starts out this...
...BARDEEN, Secretary H. A. A.THE meeting of the Deutscher Verein has been postponed to Tuesday owing to the meeting on Monday of the Modern Language Conference...