Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dive out the window, however. Last spring five Harvard men clad in checkered shorts and examination blue books jumped off the John Weeks Memorial Bridge. They were arrested for disturbing the peace. No Collegian, since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow meditated aqueous suicide from the same point as a professor of Modern Languages here in the 1860's, had ever considered river bathing...
William Hermanns, professor of modern languages at San Jose College, California, and Donald V. McGranahan, lecturer on social psychology at Harvard, stated that the Germans were trying to play the Russians against the United States and that real progress in German reorientation would have to wait until East-West differences were resolved...
...last fight-unless he won. He wanted enough money to go into business in California, managing and training other fighters. Last week, 17 hours after Champion Robinson flattened him, 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle died of a cerebral hemorrhage, the first death in a championship fight in modern U.S. boxing history...
Whether a first-rank scholar is really needed to run a modern U.S. university, or whether an able administrator sensitive to the rights and duties of scholars might do as well or better, was at least a debatable question. But Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia...
...Pleasure of Lookery. Brother Leo's essays and reminiscences are valuable in their own right as an honest, amused and only slightly crotchety effort to put the whole matter of "modern art" in a clear perspective (despite the title, there is little talk of poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true...