Word: modernisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Influence of Popular Italian Comedy upon Shakespere be Detected" will be treated by Professor Oscar J. Campbell Jr., of Michigan University at a Modern Language Conference to be held in the Common Room of Conant Hall on Monday evening at 8 o'clock...
...first active steps towards the use of the Morris Gray Fund for Modern Poetry were outlined yesterday afternoon by Professor Winship in the Art Room of the Widener Library, in an informal talk. The gift by Morris Gray '77 of $30,000, the income from which was to be used for the purchase of contemporary poetry, was announced last month, and Professor Winship's speech yesterday was the first intimation of what general plan would be followed...
...poetry belonging to the University. Few institutions can boast such completeness as that afforded by the Norton gifts. Practically all the important, and a great deal of the lesser, verse written in English since Elizabethan times are here represented. With this material as a background the collection of modern verse left the University by Miss Lowell should combine with the books bought by the Gray fund to give Harvard a poetry library unique in this counrty...
With the acquisition of a separate room for the housing of the modern collection the facilities for the study and appreciation of poetry at Harvard receive a substantial strengthening. A start has been made in the right direction, for of all forms of literature poetry most of all forms of literature poetry most of all requires comfortable and quiet surroundings for its appreciation. The hurly burly of the main Widener reading room with its scraping chairs and hoarse whispers or the deadening fastness of the stacks are equally inappropriate for the sort of pleasure to be found in the reading...
...cultural training is not for the rich alone. It would seem a necessary balancing factor in the life of the specialist who makes the wheels of the modern day go 'round. The competition of this age may demand a reorganization of our schools. But the direction of that revision as Professor Rand has recently suggested, might better be back to the old fundamentals brought up to date with a philosophy of modern science. Some such move as this might by raising the standards, take care of the excessive competition, and at the same time insure the intellectual stability of university...