Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture course at the Lowell Institute will begin this afternoon at 5 o'clock, when Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., professor of the history of Art at Princeton University, will give the first of a series of eight lectures on "Modern Painting." The lectures in the course will be given in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, on Thursday and Saturday afternoons at 5 o'clock. The doors will open at 4.30 o'clock and will be closed at 5 o'clock throughout each lecture. Tickets may be secured free of charge by applying by mail to the Curator...
...Royce." The implication that Mr. Russell's ability and achievements as a philosopher are slight and not comparable to those of the men whom Harvard has, in the last few years, lost, is too wholly absurd to be taken seriously by anyone who has kept at all abreast of modern philosophic thought. Mr. Russell has established himself so firmly in philosophy that it is not untrue to say that in England today there is a "Russian school." Professor Royce remarked on one occasion, at least, that Mr. Russell's work, "The Principia Mathematica," is undoubtedly the most important work...
...This acquisition of a distinguished modern work of art is an event of moment in the development of the Museum, which hitherto has received most of its enrichments in the field of the earlier masters. It is evident that the Museum can never be expected to compete with the large public collections of pictures. It may readily be seen, however, that a small, rigidly selective collection of paintings, representing the best in many schools, and periods, would add an element of high value to the courses of instruction in the fine arts at Harvard. The Sargent landscape marks a possible...
...status of modern university football administration has not as yet acquired that ethical development whereby we are warranted in accepting it as having arrived at that exalted state which admits that no further acquisition is essential to its betterment along lines of clean, honorable and manly encounter...
...Modern Language Conference. "Literary Backgrounds: a Study in Description," by Mr. F. W. C. Herse '99. Conant Common Room...