Word: modernes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lecture in Modern Language Conference, "Spenser's Prentice Years," by Dr. Percy W. Long in the Common Room of Conant Hall...
...waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel men to fight according to rule, to murder and pillage like Christian gentlemen, why can it not compel them to settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind who would deny the existence of an ever-growing instrument of progress and civilization in the form of an international public opinion strong enough to settle...
...victory in the event of war; we must insure against war itself. The road to be travelled is long; complete success must depend on the development of international law and political unity in some form, and on the universal recognition of the absolute futility of war for securing under modern conditions any economic or moral advantage. The leaders in both lines of progress should be drawn from the most intelligent classes in the community,--those composed largely of college graduates...
...styled pacifists. They may not disapprove of preparing for peace, but invariably they are found spending all their time preparing for war, forgetting, or, through perfectly justifiable interest in the technique of their profession, ignoring the fact that such ever-increasing preparation is itself the chief cause of all modern wars. Thus, also, just to the extent that they succeed in the purpose for which they were founded, will the Summer Training Camps stifle the university man's belief in the chance for peace now and today. The man who served in an army reserve of any kind may believe...
Robert S. Nathan's leading article, "Apres Moi, le Deluge," is an exousable protest against the modern debutante's unfitness for workday life and against the marriage do convenance. But its hysterical sentence structure and three of impending disaster show lack of historical perspective: he might have seen the same force at work at "Le Preciousness Ridicules" or in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." In verse, too, it is less easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey...