Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, will lecture under the auspices of the New England Headquarters of the Military Training Camps Association on "Modern Battlefield Tactics" at the Tremont Temple Auditorium, on Tuesday, at 4.30 o'clock. Anyone interested will be welcomed, but members of the R. O. T. C. are particularly invited to attend the lecture...
...remarkably high quality, even for undergraduate verse which, in the bulk, has always been the best written in this country. Mr. Norris and Mr. Hillyer easily take the lead with their contributions in the present list. Of the two, Mr. Norris, in "An Apple," strikes the more modern note. Here, as elsewhere in his work, he displays much of that "witty delicacy" which so many of the younger English poets today have derived from Andrew Marvell and others of the 17th century. In point of style, he may already be classed with writers like Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, and Walter...
...Hillyer, less original, as he is less modern, in form, is perhaps, even more original in spirit, in expression. He accepts the great tradition of English poetry--the tradition of Spenser and Shakespere--as Mr. Norris accepts the lesser, but accepts it freely and boldly, as if born to the purple. In "The Question" one is struck first of all by the individuality and evocative quality of the diction, then by the sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition...
...Modern Language Conference. "New Light on Keats." Professor Neilson. Common Room, Conant Hall...
Theses must also be handed in for the degree of Ph.D. in 1917 in the Division of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government and Economics. All these theses should be sent to the chairman of the respective Divisions...