Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...entitled "Jesus Christ and the Social Question." Dr. Peabody presents a study of the teachings of Jesus in their relation to men as members of society and to the great social and civic problems of the world. Jesus Christ came not to construct society, but to inspire men to fashion it; his spirit is meant first to quicken men in realization of their mutual responsibility and to work through them the upbuilding of the social structure...
...Monthly for March opens with an eloquent appeal by Professor Santayana for a change in the method of teaching Latin in our present educational system. The learning of Latin was a fashion and has passed as all fashions do. "Instead of teaching with Latin and Greek words we should deal with Greek and Latin things. . . . Imagine the content of such courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin...
...prevented by lack of knowledge from appreciating the merits of the question as to the steward's salary, the Board have only themselves to blame. No one wishes to deal in a niggardly fashion with the steward, but it is to be regretted that the auditor makes no mention of any plan like that at Memorial by which the steward's remuneration is in part dependent on the lowness of the prices. Have the board of directors ever considered it? It would be interesting to know if in comparing the steward's salary with that of the Memorial steward...
...indicate that these seats were reserved, but, even so, how grossly inadequate is so small a space to accommodate the large number of men who must wish to attend these lectures. If the students can not find time to occupy seats two hours before the lecture commences, after the fashion of the rest of the audience, there should be some provision made whereby they can enjoy one of the greatest of the University's privileges...