Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse, Mr. Powel's "Love Song a la Mode," gracefully and lightly makes the best of modern conditions. "Up in the Old Church Tower," by Mr. Husband, is perhaps the best thing in the number. The lines are good, and a simple and genuine mood irresistibly communicates its vision and its feeling to the reader. It touches and awakens response as Mr. Wheelock's "The Ghost to his Beloved" fails to do. There the lyric cry falls flat and one is left unmoved...
...LECTURE. "Modern Spanish Novelists." Mr. James Fitzmaurice Kelly Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The Text of Chaucer." Professor F. N. Robinson. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...opening, Dr. Henderson denied the assertion of many modern historians that the French Revolution is not an epoch-making event, and while acknowledging its retarding effects upon the progress of civilization, he emphasized the far-reaching result of such an important and hitherto unknown political experiment. The French Revolution in history is what the "Republic" of Plato is in the world of thought...
...Andre Tardieu, foreign editor of the Paris "Temps," and an acknowledged authority on French and international politics, has been chosen to deliver the Hyde lectures this year. His subject will be "The Modern and Foreign Politics of France and Europe." The lectures will be given in February under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, but the dates and subjects of the separate lectures have not yet been announced. Mr. Tardieu is well known throughout Europe as a writer of books and articles on international politics. He has also held an important office under the French government as Governor...