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Example sentences for "modern languages"

  • In 1825, on the recommendation of Judge Story, options were first allowed, in modern languages.

  • One does not feel quite easy in allowing nobody but a lawyer or a devotee of modern languages to read a page of English or American history.

  • The classical departments of some colleges also give courses in Modern Greek[65]: such courses, however, belong properly to the field of Modern Languages.

  • What course or courses in this subject should be part of the general curriculum or be prescribed for students in art, in science, in modern languages, or in the preprofessional or professional groups?

  • As noted, the recognition of modern languages as cultural subjects is relatively recent.

  • The "Natural Method"= In some institutions the attempt is made in teaching ancient Greek and Latin to employ methods used by the teachers of modern languages.

  • Within a century of the decay of Norman French in England, a knowledge of modern languages began to assume value.

  • Science, commerce, technical work, modern languages, and government were stressed in the instruction of the leaders.

  • Harrison accepted a call, in 1876, to Washington and Lee as Professor of Modern Languages, and formed a new Virginian centre for specialists.

  • Sims was granted leave to visit Europe to prosecute the study of Modern Languages, and particularly Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, preparatory to the more thorough teaching of the English language.

  • Valentine resigned the chair of Modern Languages, chiefly on account of delicate health.

  • Poems, A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers, and The Vision of Sir Launfal; and he was in 1855 appointed Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard in succession to Longfellow.

  • Modern Languages at Harvard, an offer which he gladly accepted.

  • Trustee, and after graduating was appointed to a new Chair of Modern Languages, which the coll.

  • This mythological disease, though less virulent in modern languages, is by no means extinct.

  • It is the same if we examine the structure of modern languages.

  • There are offered ten distinct courses in English, eleven in modern languages, eight in history and twenty in economics and statistics and in political science.

  • In the department of modern languages, there is one professor, one associate professor, one assistant professor and four instructors.

  • Some believed that "a gentleman might become learned by the only assistance of modern languages.

  • The concrete studies are nearest to the pupil; mathematics requires some apparatus to render it tangible and vivid; to get pupils started properly in modern languages can be but a slow process.

  • Like the gorilla and the chimpanzee, it makes rough nests of twisted boughs, in which the female animal and the little ones sleep.

  • For this reason the baboons are sometimes known as dog-faced monkeys.

  • Chacmas live in large bands among the South African mountains, and are very difficult to watch, as they always post two or three of their number as sentinels.

  • With him had called one of the teachers,--an instructor in modern languages, a native of Italy.

  • If they happen to have learning, it is only Greek and Latin; but not one word of modern history, or modern languages.

  • One could no longer keep abreast of the best thought without a knowledge of modern languages.

  • Besides writing his observations, the traveller laboured earnestly at modern languages.

  • It must be remembered that in the sixteenth century there were no schools of political economy, of modern history or modern languages at the universities.

  • Quantity they observed loosely--quantity in modern languages is always loose: but it does not follow that they ignored it altogether.

  • Footnote 193: Spanish can scarcely be said to have shared, to an extent commensurate with its interest, in the benefit of recent study of the older forms of modern languages.


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