Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...librettist has turned out a book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee...
Competition for the George B. Sohier prize of $250.00 is open to undergraduates in Harvard College, Harvard graduates in the Graduate School, or students in Radcliffe College. The prize is given for the best thesis presented by a candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature...
...Paine prizes, two of $100 each, are given for the best essays of any students of the University on the ethical aspect of the modern social questions. The essays must be deposited at the Secretary's office on or before...
...literary course will be given by the department of English at Yale next year, entitled "Modern Novels." The course will consist almost entirely of the rapid reading of living authors, with a general discussion of each work. The idea is to take up each week some English, American, French, German or Russian novel, translations of foreign works always being used. Such authors as Thomas Hardy, Weyman, Meredith, Tolstoi, Alphonse Daudet, Heyse, Mrs. Ward, Hall Caine, C. D. Warner and Howells will be among those studied, the recitation hours being given up to a lecture on the book in hand, with...
...Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, and as such has visited most of the leading colleges in the East and some of those in the West. He has been successful in awakening the interest of students in the Foreign Missionary enterprise, which is the most important movement of the modern church. His address will therefore be sure to be of the greatest interest...