Word: vivendi
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...closing, M. Tardieu took up the famous Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, and the various views with regard to its present efficacy. He characterized it as affording a mere modus vivendi between Italy and Austria, and as having ceased to serve Germany as an instrument for dominating European affairs...
...along class lines, that as a result of the great growth of the University, the introduction of the elective system, and other causes, it has long since been outgrown, and therefore to abandon all efforts to revivify it, and aim instead at securing some new and more practical modus vivendi to take its place." The argument of which this sentence is the conclusion shows rather more of the effects of preconceived idea than of a fair review of the facts as they actually exist, and it is to be regretted that so dark a view of the state of Harvard...
...Harvard, 1820-1824" is a pleasant reminiscent sketch of life at Harvard College seventy years ago. Mr. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, himself a '24 man, tells of the old professors - their peculiarities and methods. And the picture which he draws for us of the modus vivendi of 1820-24, so opposite in many things to that of the present day, is charmingly vivid...
...modus vivendi shows good will on the part of Canada and is advantageous...