Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of an adequate gymnasium, printed below, provides for a thoroughly modern and complete building to fill the needs for which the old Hemenway Gymnasium is now too small. It is designed to have one large central room, which would contain one or two basketball courts, and would be completely equipped with gymnastic apparatus including, scaling ladders, climbing poles, horizontal bars, scaling walls, parallel bars, and leather covered horses, as well as the lighter apparatus such as bar-bells, quarter-staves, wands, dumb-bells, single sticks, and Indian clubs. Branching off from this central space are smaller rooms, which would...
...using the present to prepare for the future-sensible because it does not interfere with the primary status of the university as an institution of higher learning and efficient because it promises to turn out officers possessing a broad foundation of general knowledge and with the practical training which modern warfare demands. The course will make no appeal to the student who seeks the easiest way to a college diploma. At best, the process of becoming an Army officer is serious business. Only by the hardest kind of work can a man become an officer and a college graduate...
Beginning with this year, Greek will no longer be required for entrance to the Bachelor of Arts course, and Latin will not be required of S.B. students in case they offer added requirements in mathematics and modern languages. This does not mean that Princeton's former policy of the encouragement of the course in the classics will be in any way slighted, for opportunities for advanced work in that field will still be offered to undergraduates...
...Modern civilization rests on the production of goods. A year and a half of Bolshevik regime in Russia proves that once the incentive to production, or rather to the efficient organization of production, is eliminated, civilization crumbles away, if it does not tumble down with a crash. If Europe is to have a barrier to Bolshevism in the East, that barrier should be founded, politically, on the principle of satisfied nationalism, and, economically, on the principle of peasant proprietorship and diffused property. --New York Tribune...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock the fourth concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert will be open, without charge for admission, to all officers and students in the University, and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Officer Material School. For the general public, tickets are on sale at Amee Brothers' Bookstore, Harvard Square...