Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buildings were going up in the Yard, and the village of Cambridge had begun its change into a modern industrial city. Eliot's reforms in the College curriculum had for the first time in Harvard's history allowed the students elective courses, instead of the entirely prescribed program of former years...
Among the pictures that will be on display are a number of modern French drawings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, but artists from seven other European countries and the United States will be represented in the entire group...
Although the original Salzburg Seminar has been in operation only one summer, the Canadian International Student Service has already decided it promising enough to open a similar project this year in Germany. The group will give courses in "Modern Trends in Humanities...
Most of Mr. Newberry's collection, which he began as an undergraduate in the College, has never been exhibited in any museum in the east. A few of the works have been loaned for special showings in galleries such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, but this will be the first time so many paintings will be seen east of the Mississippi...
Bowery Expert. Few modern Army officers have a background like Captain Tom Crocker. When his father died, Tom quit school at 17 and joined the Navy. After World War I he got a job as clerk in a Detroit police court and began to drink. First an alcoholic, then a dope addict, he lost his job, took to forgery, was arrested and finally committed to an insane asylum. Discharged at last, he began the same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where...