Word: modernizations
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...modern version of "Faust" has been produced at the London Globe...
...Greek languages, including prosody; be able, properly, to construe and parse any portion of the following books, namely : Jacobs' Greek Reader, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships; alligation, medical and alternate; and algebra to the end of simple equations; comprehend, also, the doctrine of roots and powers, and arithmetical and geometrical progression. . . . . Every person, before admission...
Next week will be an especially interesting one in the theatrical circles of Boston. With McCullough at the Boston and Keene at the Park, we shall have the two great schools of modern tragedy acting ably represented...
...should like to see the students take a little more interest in some of the courses in modern languages, and in this desire we are, no doubt, warmly seconded by the instructors themselves...
...recent writer says in regard to the girl of today, "Complain and find fault as we may, we must acknowledge that the modern miss is after all, a pretty nice institution, and one that we wouldn't care to part with. Why grumble at their vanity, you silly fellow, when you are the only one to profit by it? If they dress well, talk well, even flirt just a little bit, we don't care about having them any different than they really are, and with all due regard for our grandmothers, we say, God bless the girls of today...