Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...character, tragic or droll, differ from ours. The great Revolution appeals to us not for its size but because of the dramatic quality of its executions and the fineness and intensity of the aristocrats thrown into relief by the unrestrained, but justly impassioned mob. The gayety of the modern Parisian is something so hard to define, so hard to put your hand on, that it is often a relief after our own boisterous humor...
...third concert in Mr, Whiting's series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Kirkland street, tonight at 8.15 o'clock...
...third concert in Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music will be given on Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, of the Music Building on Kirkland street. It will be open without charge to all officers and students of the University, and to members of the Naval Radio School and the Officers' Material School. Tickets for the public at $1 each are on sale at Amee Brothers' Bookstore...
Miss Amy Lowell will give a lecture and reading, under the auspices of the Division of Music in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The subject of her lecture will be "Some Musical Analogies in Modern "Poetry," with Illustrations from her own works and those of other poets, and the proceeds of the meeting will be for the benefit of the American. Friends of Music in France. Tickets at $1.50, $1.00, and fifty cents will be on sale during the day at Amee Brothers' Bookstone. Harvard Square, and at Herrick...
...doubt the advisability of an attempt to combine these two, for the reason, which the "Illustrated" seems to have overlooked, that a gymnasium is not suitable as a memorial. No matter, how elaborate or how modern it may be, no matter what care is spent on planning and construction, any such building will eventually become antiquated and useless--even as Hemenway is today, although when the latter was completed in 1879 it was revolutionary in its magnificence. In the "Harvard Herald" of October 2, 1883, we read "It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been...