Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge on to our present institutions. American universities are sprung from a different conception of education and must meet the demands of men from far wider spheres and with far more varieties of interest. They must evolve their own adaptations to modern conditions....The experiment indicates above all else the fact that enough interest has been aroused, in the cause of a more modern and more effective. American education, to call forth a superb gift promoting its actual accomplishment. It is the thin edge of a wedge. If it can be utilized successfully...
...becoming more considerate towards the working classes. They do not show the snobbishness towards the poor that was formerly so evident." This was the statement made by Professor Will Durant of Columbia University in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Professor Durant became one of the foremost philosophers of modern times with the publication of his "Story of Philosophy...
...honoring women of America. I pay tribute to one of the Joans of Arc of this campaign-Mabel Walker Willebrandt. I declare the feeling in my own heart when I say there has not been a finer piece of public service performed by anyone in modern days than that put across by Mrs. Willebrandt...
Treasure Girl. As soon as Beatrice Lillie, her onetime co-star in The Chariot Revue, had opened in Manhattan (see This Year of Grace) Gertrude Lawrence opened in a musical show of her own called Treasure Girl. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly the most consistently beautiful of all modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than...
...York, chicago, Boston and Washington, the only cities to witness this unique group of Americans showing the new and modern type of "music drama," have been eulogistic in their praise of the new school of musical show which these singers give. The Americans treat opera as a "good show" and act and sing it as such, surrounding their own efforts with the most magnificent scenery ever sent out of New York City with any operatic group...