Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fans actually favor a reversion to old time football conditions remains a question. The Cornell Sun has answered it in the affirmative, but the fact that there has been no notice able decline in the student attendance at games during the past several seasons seems to indicate that the modern undergraduate is satisfied with the status quo. It should be remembered that against the impersonality and what can almost be called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well as its superior meriover former days...
...Gray's donation with its assurance of keeping Widener supplied with the best in English and American poetry as it is published, will not only enable Harvard to have the finest collection of modern poetry in the country but will make the neglect of such material by the English Department inexcusable...
...Modern poetry will be taken out of the Harvard classroom and put into the bookshelf and the informal talk by the gift of $42,000 made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Morris Gray, '77. Three gifts, totaling that amount, were made, with the object that the income should be applied to the purchase of books of current modern poetry, and books upon the subject, and for talks by poets and critics...
Authorities of the Harvard Library have undertaken to begin immediately the collection of volumes of modern poetry and of books of criticism upon modern poetry. The room in which the Amy Lowell Collection will be housed seems the natural place for the location of the new volumes of modern poetry...
...brought the attire of the chorus girl nearer the dead line, but now with the revival of "The Black Crook" by Christopher Morely the bald headed row is at last given an opportunity to sit back and catch its breath. Absolute nudity is the limit of revelation, and the modern developments were approaching it with a dangerous speed. The day is saved, however, by Mr. Morley. The tide has been turned before it was too late...