Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Emerson of the Department of History is an authority on medieval and modern history. The general subject to be discussed by his group will be decided at the first meeting...
...greater part of the "Memorial Gymnasium Number" of the "Illustrated" is devoted to a plea for the erection of a great, modern gymnasium as a memorial to those Harvard men who died in the service of the nation. Although the high purpose of the proposal can not be doubted, and although the benefits to the University would probably be great if the plan were carried out, there are one or two points in the case which merit investigation...
Miss Amy Lowell will give a lecture, under the auspices, of the Division of Music, in the Concert Hall of the Music Building next Monday evening at 8.15 o'clock. Her subject will be "Some Musical Analogies in Modern Poetry", with illustrations from her own works and those of other poets. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the American Friends of Musicians in France. Tickets at $1.50, $1.00, and fifty cents, are on sale at Amee Brothers Bookstore and at Herrick's in Boston...
...born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables and wireless, now a creditor in thousands of millions, to many European governments, owner of immense values in foreign securities, keep out of the complications of modern industrial and economic life...
...Here was certainly a full and varied life, responsive to many personal moods and many tides of public feeling. Lowell drew intellectual stimulus from enormously wide reading in classical and modern literatures. Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair...