Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets and one of the most popular.' The style is that of a lecturer, lively at times almost colloquial, but always full of matter, fresh and stimulating. In the preface, Professor Kittredge acknowledges his debt to the work of other Chaucerian scholars 'in both hemispheres,' but there...
...organized recently by citizens of Cambridge and vicinity for the purpose of providing the necessary facilities for those who wish to engage in the sport of rifle and revolver shooting. A 50-foot indoor range is proposed in the basement of the building at 9 Prospect street, Cambridge, and modern Winchester rifles of 22 calibre will be provided for the use of club members...
...country is not apparent. We have two land and two ocean frontiers. Where have any of the European belligerents been able to make an invasion from the sea? Can it be said that this war has shown anything but the futility of attempting over-seas operations against modern coast defenses and naval protection? Given adequate coast-defenses--and these I for one do not oppose--from what nation need we, after the lessons of the present war, fear any successful attack from...
...about 40 per cent of the total income of the Japanese people goes for taxes,--largely for the Chinese and Russian wars and their aftermath. As for Germany and all the other European nations, which we are told will invade America after this war, is it not clear that modern warfare requires first a long period of nursing the economic, financial, and human capital of the intended aggressor? that Germany's present successes are due primarily to her 40 years' peaceful accumulations of these three, efficiently marshalled? and that the present war will effectually prevent Germany from effecting any aggressive...
...George B. Sohier Prize is an award of $250 for the best thesis by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature who must be either in Harvard College, Radcliffe College, or a University graduate in the Graduate School...