Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Charles E. Fay, of Tufts college was elected president of the pedagogical section of the Modern Language association, which held a meeting recently in Cambridge...
...most men find it absolutely necessary to spend many hours a week in the reading room and wish to use their energies in study, instead of squandering them in the effort, frequently vain, to keep awake. The building is an old one we know, and is not supplied with modern appliances yet it seems as though a little more care of the heating apparatus and a little more liberal admission of out door air might easily be secured...
...requirements for admission to freshman class are unchanged, except and addition of modern English History (1558-1880) to the academic requirements...
...classical studies by the instructors and advanced students of the Latin and Greek department, of which the first volume has appeared, will undoubtedly be a valuable publication. But many important departments at Harvard are underrepresented except in periodicals published under the auspices of other Universities, such as the Modern Language Notes of Johns Hopkins University or the Psychological Journal edited by the president of Clark University. Our faculty have several times considered the question of establishing a journal representing the University, but thus far with no definite result. A publication like that proposed even if it were only the Library...
...will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece of bookmaking in binding, paper and printing. A fine engraving of Robert Browning serves as frontispiece...