Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Christian standpoint, and no amount of mutual sympathy can bring these views together. The Christian believes that our acts are not all determined by natural physical forces. We are more than parts of nature,--we are something beyond it. In spite of the materialistic tendency of the modern world, the great mass of people leans toward freedom and self-development, and freedom and self-development are only likely to find their expression in a great revival of the Christian faith...
This materialism enters into every phase of our modern life, into our educational scheme, into relations between capital and labor, even into our religion. It is the practical ideal which is the choice of the vast majority of those who have the power to choose, and religion is tolerated in so far as it contributes to worldly wealth. The value of a civilization is to be tested by the culture that it prompts, but of true culture this age is almost guiltless, the mad race for wealth leaving no room for it. Until the soul of man gets wearied...
...more mediocre class is the story entitled "The Heritage." It belongs to that type which has grown and spread like a weed in American literature of the last twenty years and which, because it is the peculiar property of the modern magazine, we may say is characterized by the "periodical" style. The recipe for a tale of this type is very simple; only two precautions are necessary. First, you must never tell your story directly and fully, you must only suggest its outline and leave the rest to your reader's imagination. Kipling is largely responsible for the vogue...
...that it was in the plays of Aristophanes, to which he so aptly refers. He renders his style piquant from a wealth of allusions drawn from a comprehensive knowledge of literature. If writers of the present day possessed this cultural foundation of familiarity with their classics, ancient and modern, they would not have to rack their brains and torment their dictionaries for an exotic array of adjectives and adverbs in order to stimulate interest...
...following appointments have recently been approved by the board of Overseers: Silas Marcus Macvane '73, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus; Charles Herbert Moore h.'90, professor of Art Emeritus; Frederic Ward Putnam '62, Peabody professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Emeritus; Charles Joyce White '59, professor of Mathematics Emeritus; John Williams White, professor of Greek Emeritus; William Barker Hills '71, associate professor of Chemistry Emeritus; Louis Allard, assistant professor of French...