Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Poetry, Philosophy, and Religion." Dr. Hutchison. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...modern experience, all human instinct, goes to support the belief that the cure for other things than drunkenness lies in giving every man a chance of a decent and comfortable home, that at all events without that chance he will not be content and cannot be counted upon as a good citizen. What choice shall we make then? How shall we rate our fellow-citizens of tomorrow--in terms of money, or of men? If the former, perhaps you will make money. If the latter, without fail you will make men. Which...
...those which are mere exercises in verbal ingenuity. We read Chesterton with delight because of his manliness, because of his courage, because he has ideals; we honor him because he insists on the value of ideals and of faith as springs of action; because he would substitute for our modern, sentimental purposelessness the energy of a brave purpose; because he is not what the author concludes, with the worst kind of Chestertonian paradox which consists in twisting a word entirely out of its accepted meaning--because he is not the most decadent of the decadents. Chesterton is a force...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. Meeting in Memory of Herbert T. Poland. Professors Kittredge, Baker, and Robinson. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. Meeting in Memory of Herbert T. Poland. Professors Kittredge, Baker, and Robinson. Common Room, Conant Hall...