Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Modern Language Conference, Common Room, Conant Hall. "Life in a Dutch University", Professor Kirsopp Lake...
...school has now a very modern and complete equipment. In the department of Mechanical Engineering are heat engine laboratories, an applied mechanics laboratory, hydraulic laboratory, laboratory for testing materials, cement and concrete laboratories, the power room at Pierce Hall, and the Refrigeration plant at the Medical School. The electrical equipment includes dynamo, research, high tension, photometric, and standardizing laboratories. In addition are several chemical and physics workshops, as well as a laboratory of sanitary engineering, the Cruft Laboratory for radio-telegraphic engineering, the Simpkins ore-dressing laboratory, the Simpkins assay laboratory, and the laboratory of metallurgy...
...announced yesterday by the College Office that Assistant Professor Robert Matteson Johnston had been appointed full Professor of Modern History. Professor Johnston gave up his duties as instructor in the University in 1918 and was commissioned a major in the United States Army. He was detailed for duty with the Historical Section of the General Staff of the A. E. F. where he acted as chief until February, 1919, temporarily taking the place of the regular officer in charge. The Historical Section also forms the Operations Section of the Historical Branch of the War Department in Washington, and this Operations...
...such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations of the social order. It is difficult to see how Boston can retain its position as the modern Athens if youths of such tender age are to regard the most characteristic institution of Boston culture as food for mirth. A Senate investigation into Harvard teaching is of vital importance unless the basis of modern Boston is to pass away unnoticed...
...institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...