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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...specified time to the committee. The committee was composed of the heads of schools, colleges and universities throughout the country, with President Eliot as chairman. The committee appointed nine conferences, each consisting of ten men, to investigate the following subjects; 1, Latin; 2, Greek; 3, English; 4, Other Modern Languages; 5, Mathematics; 6, Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry; 7, Natural History (Biology, including Botany, Zoology, and Physiology); 8, History, Civil Government, and Political Economy; 9, Geography (Physical Geography, Geology and Meteorology). Great care was taken in the forming of these conferences, as to the scholarship and experience of those chosen...
...furnace room in the basement is fitted with gas furnaces that have the modern air blast for crucible work. The basement also contains a constant temperature room, a machine workshop, a room furnished with steam power for work on a large scale, and large storage rooms...
There are many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways...
...they had tended rather to produce than to banish competitions of other kinds. Competition, he thought, was always the method in which the activities of man were accustomed to express themselves. He noted humorously the difference in the character of the competitions of chivalry and those of modern days. Brutality had been more and more eliminated from contests, and he felt that no passage of arms could be more gentle than such as the audience had assembled to witness. All of the debaters of the evening were heartily applauded by the audience both at the beginning and end of their...
...divinity students. This was before people felt that the Bible could be read and studied as simple literature. Now all this is changed, and the man who knows nothing of the stories of the Bible is as ignorant as the man who cannot tell anything about the best modern stories. It is just such classes as this one of Professor Thayer's and such courses as Semitic 12, under Professor Lyon, that are going to popularize the reading and the study of the Bible and make them a delight where once they were a burden...