Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your April 8 review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of The Art of Love was also a description of the translator. The modern Mr. Humphries, my Latin teacher at Woodmere Academy until his departure, used to explain Caesar's military escapades in terms of machine guns, mortars and armored tanks. It was no surprise that Ovid's women be dressed by Dior...
...beginning of last fall, Love had his entire first boat back from last year and rumor had it that this would be one of the best Harvard crews in modern years. How this turns out remains to be seen, but the fact is that the varsity boat that will race B.U., M.I.T., and Syracuse this afternoon consists of three sophomores, two ex-J.V. oarsmen, and only three veterans of last year's eight...
...saddle, he has helped to hurry things along. Speaking of Vorticism, a movement initiated by Lewis, Wagner remarks, "It was a necessary interim. It 'hustled the cultural Britannia, stepping up that cautious pace with which she prefers to advance.' And Britannia was certainly goosed up the gangplank to Modern Art." Lewis, then, with his blasts and diatribes too often ill-conceived and over-angry, at least helped prevent stagnation and kept alive an awareness of the phony and the sentimental...
...yesterday's CRIMSON (April 23) it was stated that Le Corbeiller will take ove Nat. Sci. 2 in 1957-58; that the course has been renamed The Foundations of Modern Physical Science, and that the mathematics prerequisite has been abandoned...
Another innovation in the Department next year will be the installation of soundproof booths in one room of the Modern Language Center. This will enable students in French Ra to record individual recitation for self-criticism...