Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pierian Sodality orchestra will be given in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The program will feature Borodin's First Symphony, in accordance with its custom of presenting each year some work which is new or unfamiliar to American audiences. Borodin is one of the modern Russian composers, and his works are full of popular modern innovations...
...Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains for a proper subject...
...Illustrated lecture of the Modern Language Conference, "Modern Stage Decoration," by Mr. Samuel J. Hume '13, in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
Another is that the general feeling among undergraduates that the examinations are unfair tests will give way to a feeling that these examinations are real benefits and are not inquisitions conducted for the amusement of the modern language departments...
...Modern Language Conference. "A Problem in the Interpretation of Dante," by Professor Kenneth McKenzie, of Yale University, in the Conant Common Room...