Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ones to voice this sentiment, yet the spirit of fair play and good sportsmanship seems to recommend this criticism as worthy of consideration on the part of the undergraduates and the Athletic Committee. The increasing tendency of college athletics is more and more towards the calculating, efficient ideal of modern business, and away from the recreative standard of true sport for sport's sake. The adoption of a progressive suggestion may mean a certain amount of sacrifice, but it is well worth while when the step tends towards better sportsmanship...
...Master" is a modern thought production, in which the author gives us his chief character, ruled, presumably, by reason--by the idea that one should have individual freedom to follow the mandates of his own desires in the largest things of life. The author has accomplished a thoroughly fine task...
...Modern Language Conference. "Recent Theories of the Origin of Epic Poetry in France," by Professor Sheldon, Conant Common Room...
Shades of Emerson and Longfellow! Will the Juggernaut of modern progress have no mercy? Is Cantabrigian conservatism to die without a gasp? Consider the awful consequences of such a vulgar union...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...