Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than to the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf...
...believe that patriotism, despite all its modern caricatures at the hands of sentimentality and hypocrisy, will never be too commonplace to be honored; and that any institution of culture, unless its culture is simply dilettant, will always be eager to pay its due share of honor. Harvard owes a public recognition of sympathy in the inauguration of the holiday, and, in the name of the great body of students, we appeal to the gentlemen who are members of the Corporation to declare next Thursday a holiday throughout the University...
First year-Rhetoric and English Composition, Elementary German, Elementary French, Mediaeval and Modern European History, Technical Development of Ancient Architecture, Architectural Drawing, Principles of Delineation and Freehand Drawing, Engineering, and Physics...
Third year-Freehand Drawing from Architectural Subjects, Greek or Latin, Fine Arts, Technical and Historical Development of the Renaissance and Modern Styles, Architectural Design, Geology and Mineralogy of Building Stones, and Building Construction...
...flavor and charm, is representative of this period of his writing. He later handled more numerous characters, surrounded by more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them...