Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Modern Language Conference. "Courtly Love and the Virgin Queen," by Dr. Percy W. Long, in Conant Common Room...
Professor C. S. Minot, who is now serving as the Harvard Austausch-Professor at Berlin, delivered from December 16 to 21 six lectures on "Modern Problems of Biology" before the University of Jena...
...true that the one-time, "music of the future" has today become a part of the music of the past: Siegfried is as simple as "Home, Sweet, Home," and twenty years hence, to the successor of a certain Harvard instructor who, after a performance of one of the most modern compositions of D'Indy or some one of his sort, wrathfully departed from Sanders Theatre with the comment. "I did not come to Sanders Theatre to hear a reproduction of the noises of the street," this same music may be as pellucid as the pool of a mountain stream...
Thus, cabin'd, cribbed, confined, he sits down to enjoy the Monthly. Mr. Gregg writes clearly and definitely, but has he covered the field? Has he really found the "Best Seller," the best with the most modern conveniences? I see no account of Rex (or is it Regina) Beach's work; nor of the price of first serial rights disposed of to the great Eastern publishing houses; second rights to the Indiana Humble Bee, for example; sometimes third serial rights in the far Northwest; rights for dramatic production; rights for the cheap reprint to be given away with a pound...
...derricks pulling down the walls of this intellectual Bastile we wonder in a somewhat patronizing air at President Quincy's quaint taste and short-sighted expectations. Let us forget his taste, and think about his short-sightedness. He made his mistake in judgment because he could not see our modern attitude towards books in education. Certainly many of us have not stopped to see our own attitude. We are simply conscious that things have changed, and we assume that they have changed for the better...