Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course was instituted twelve years ago by several influential Harvard alumni, notably Charles O. Brewster '76, and the Harvard Department of Music--the object being to provide perfectly free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture...
...Arthur Whiting's third concert in his series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music, will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Thursday evening, February 27. Members of the University, the Radio School, and the Officers' Material School may attend the concerts without charge. Tickets for the public will be on sale at Amee's bookstore...
...second concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music for 1918-19 will be given this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland street. It will be open without charge for admission to all officers and students in the University and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Officers' Material School. Tickets for the public are on sale at Amee's bookstore...
...second concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music for 1918-19 will be given on Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland street. It will be open without charge for admission to all officers and students in the University, and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Officers' Material School. This year for the first time, these expositions will be open to members of Radcliffe College and to the public. Tickets with special rates for members of Radcliffe...
...Versailles Number of the Lampoon the unspoken words of a million readers are voiced in a criticism of the overdone war jokes. To prove the justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that...