Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such men as Bishop Lawrence, John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, and Sherwood Eddy in the mornings and evenings leaving the afternoons free for tennis, golf, track, and baseball. In this way, the Conference will not only give opportunities for personal contact with men who are leaders in modern religious thought, but will also offer a chance for a few days of healthy out-of-door recreation. Under the direction of special teachers small groups will be formed for individual Bible study. A play is given the last night of the Conference...
...loan exhibition which opens tomorrow afternoon at the Fogg Art Museum will have a double appeal. In the first place the exhibition itself, comprised of valuable loans from many of the largest American art collections, has been carefully and tastefully selected to represent the whole history and scope of modern French art. Secondly the collection has been brought together in commemoration of the devoted services of those seven French officers who, assigned here as instructors, taught to so many members of the University the ways of modern...
Again we rejoice; we have poetry. In these days of what Dean Briggs has well denominated "shredded prose", when polyphonic profaners of poesy, forgetful that modern plumbing has made sanitation synonymous with seclusion and solitude are luxuriously disclosing the soapy rites of their bathtubs, it is refreshing to find that among college writers of verse, usually the most imitative of new notes and squawks, some still realize that beauty is truth, truth beauty. Both Mr. Ryan, in his pantheistic God's Ghost, haunting, mysterious, dewy, curiously suggesting tones of Wordsworth and Keats, and Mr. Chambers, in the Sinn Fein, frankly...
...early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker and the typesetter. Mr. Raffalovich should remember, too, that ever since a certain person, named Defoe, for a few days fooled all the world, critics have justly...
...member of the Rhine Boundary Commission of the Peace Conference cannot but be hailed with satisfaction by those who have worked under him here. Professor Haskins is eminently fitted for his new work by years spent in an exhaustive study of the many European boundary disputes of mediaeval and modern times...