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William I. Knapp, Ph.D., LL. D., Street professor of modern languages in Yale University, has resigned his profesship in the university and is to take charge of a similar department in the new Chicago University under President William R. Harper...
...graduate of Harvard. He graduated from Dartmouth, and in 1875 received from there a degree of D. B. For a long time Dr. Tucker has been connected with the Andover Theological School; and at present beholds a professorship there. He is one of the most prominent of the modern liberal Congregationalists, and is well known as a speaker of great ability...
...need ought to have been recognized long ago by the German department and provided for. It is hard to understand how the German department of a great university can assume to teach the language without such courses. It is conversational courses which give practical value to instruction in the modern languages. The only way for the student to get into the real spirit of a modern language is by coming into actual contact with the living language itself. When he can make a language the means of oral communication of his own thought he begins to get at its real...
...Before modern methods of transportation had practically destroyed all natural barriers, areas isolated by natural features were adapted to be the cradle of permanent and strong races. Europe is peculiarly divided up into such areas, hence the large number of its political divisions and the fixedness of the race characteristics of the separate peoples. North America on the other hand, is unfitted to be the cradle-place of different peoples, for it is in the main, a geographical unit...
...isolation of the British on this continent between the coast on the east and the practically impassable Appalachians on the west may be attributed the great development of maritime pursuits. As these barriers have been broken down by modern methods, and new fields thrown open, commerce has been more and more neglected...