Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thomas H. Mawson, of London, special lecturer on landscape designing at the University of Liverpool, and official adviser to the king and queen of Greece, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Replanning and Reconstruction of Athens, an Example of Modern City Planning," in the Fogg Lecture Room on Monday evening at 8 o'clock...
Walter de la Mare will be the speaker at a meeting under the auspices of the Poetry Society and the New England Poetry Club in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr. de la Mare, a poet of the modern English school, has come to America to represent the group of English poets who are to accept the Howland Prize which was awarded posthumously to Rupert Brooke. Being the personal friend of the late soldier-poet, Mr. de la Mare is well qualified to speak in an interesting and authoritative manner on the subject chosen...
...most disparaging sense. Now it is not to be doubted that austerity in America is a quality rare enough to appear to be "ex machina." But seeing a miracle, to suppose that there must be pullies and cardboard is to be really suspicious and of small soul. A modern scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird...
Good songs are included, especially a few modern ones, such as "If I Knock the L Out of Kelly" which Marguerite Farrell gets across; there is no other way to describe it. All in all, we are glad Lew Fields is in town, for if his co-workers are not up to snuff, he still is able to make us forget for a while that there are such things as wars and elections...
Walter de la Mare, a poet of the modern English school, will speak in the Trophy Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. de la Mare has come to America representing a group of English poets who are to accept the Howland Prize posthumously awarded to Rupert Brooke. His talk will be "Rupert Brooke and Magic in Poetry." He was a personal friend of the latter poet and is therefore singularly qualified to speak on this subject...