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...time; placed the mother-tongue on the list of subjects of instruction, and included in the conception of the school the idea of physical culture. By demanding the education of all children, including girls, who till then had been neglected, he has become one of the fathers of modern elementary education...
...influential portion of the professors in Germany are endeavoring to have modern languages as optional substitutes for classics in the German Gymnasia...
George C. Howland, Amherst '85, instructor in modern languages...
...convention held in January, of the Church Students' Missionary Association, a Japanese who addressed the meeting said that the danger to Japan seems to be at present from skepticism. Missionaries do not find their greatest opponent in any national heathen religion but from the modern doubt to which young Japan is inclined. There is at present only one Christian in the country to every 500 unbelievers. It seems better to educate natives for mission work than to bring in foreign missionaries, although of course the latter are very useful. But natives can accomplish more, and schools for their instruction...
Prof. W. I. Knapp who has held the Street professorship of modern languages at Yale since 1879, has resigned his chair and accepted an offer from Chicago University. He will remain at Yale until the end of the college year, and then spend a year in Europe and the east before entering on his duties in Chicago...