Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud of this connection with England's ancient glories, the managers of the modern commercial Hotel Cecil give an elaborate annual luncheon to bumpers and bumpees...
Picked Freshman teams from the two institutions will discuss the subject: "Resolved, That the world is becoming worse." The subject will cover many topics of undergraduate interest, from the House Plan to the status of the modern generation. Opportunity will be given the audience to question the debaters on any aspect of undergraduate activity which the debate involves...
...right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...Advocate's plans for new and adequate quarters will be welcome news to all interested in Harvard undergraduate literary activity. The younger contemporaries of the University's oldest student publication can only look on with pleasure as the remaining unit of undergraduate journalism becomes completely housed in a modern building. It is deserving of note that this new home of Pegasus is to be built in the Georgian style and harmonious with the building plans of the University...
Chemical Laboratories are doubtless almost as old as Chemistry herself--or as Alchemy, her ill-favored sister. They must, indeed, have existed in a primitive form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...