Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to create a special freshman campus on the square bounded by High, Elm, York and Library streets. On this great quadrangle, dormitories will be built with accommodations sufficient to take care of freshman classes for many years to come. It is proposed to make these buildings the most modern and best constructed in any American university plant. It is understood that the tenants of the buildings which must be torn down have been notified that their leases will not be renewed after June, 1917. The doomed structures include the dormitory known as Pierson Hall on York street...
...sixth and last of a series of lectures on modern German literature by Dr. Frederick Schoenemann, of the Department of German, will be given in Room 22, 688 Boylston street, Boston, tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "Deutscher Humor" and it will be given in German. Tickets for students may be gotten at the Co-operative and the Co-operative Branch for 50 cents each...
...program equally concerns itself with classic and modern numbers, to show the abilities of the orchestra in executing chromatic as well as melodic compositions. Modeste Eugene Alloo, the conductor, has paid particular attention to the selection of the modern pieces, with the view of bringing out the finer points in modern French and Belgian music. The "piece de resistance" of the entire program will be the "Unfinished Symphony" by Schubert, a number very rarely offered by concert artists in this country...
...small, and they are not given a training of any practical value when they return to civil life. The term of enlistment of the private soldier should be decreased from three years to one year, the length of time England has found necessary for training a private under modern conditions. The pay of the average enlisted man should be doubled so that he would receive at least thirty dollars a month. Although section twenty-seven of the present Army Bill provides for the training of enlisted men in a score of occupations during the spare hours not devoted to military...
...department of the Naval Reserve has come into existence recently on account of the increased value and activity of the submarine in modern naval warfare. Beginning with the efforts of a number of individuals who built a fast type of small cruiser for the destruction of submarines, the movement has been received most favorably and finally the Government has authorized the organizing of patrol boat squadrons along the Atlantic coast. A course is now being given at the Charlestown Navy Yard as a part of the instruction for admittance into the Naval Reserve to enable...