Word: modernizations
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...report on our first page of the change which is being aimed at in the curriculum of the English universities, we may read what has long since been believed and made the basis of action of some of our most prominent universities and colleges. It is undeniable that the modern languages are of supreme importance for men in our age of free intercourse of nations. It is also true that the modern languages have great and beautiful literatures that are well worth studying and enjoying. The classics on their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which...
...English schools and universities are notoriously devoted to the classics to the neglect often of even more fundamental knowledge than modern languages-of chemistry and the natural sciences. This agitation is in the right direction and the English mind is a too conservative one to allow the change to become too radical...
...secretary will be glad to confer with any member of the graduate department or alumnus of the college who wishes to accept the position of Professor of English (with supplementary work in Modern History) in a Southern college. Appointment to date from March, 1888. The candidates must be members of the Episcopal Church, or must favor that church more than any other...
...January number of the Monthly is replete with the results of deep and earnest thought, results that should go far towards refuting the charge of superficialness and triviality which has been made-sometimes with justice-against the modern literary productions at Harvard. To any one taking up this number of the Monthly it must occur that here is something worth reading-solid, good, careful work, and interesting matter. The editors are to be congratulated upon beginning the new year so well...
...first of his two years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Haven appears to have taught history to scientific students throughout their freshman course, devoting the first of the three terms to chronology and general history; the second to special history, embracing the leading epochs with particular attention to modern times; the third term was given to the philosophy of history. It was early recognized at Ann Arbor that the college curriculum through the modifying influence of the elective system, actually represented two kinds of training, collegiate and university, or gymnastic and scientific. While the early part of the entire...