Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next week, beginning May 5, the final exhibit of this facsmile series will be hung. It will include reproductions of drawings, etchings, and engravings by French and German Masters with a few reproductions of paintings by modern French artists included...
...largest groups have been for many years the students of Modern Languages and the students of History, Government, and Economics. Until the year 1920-21, the Modern Language group was usually in the ascendancy, but for the past six years, History, Government, and Economics have shown the larger enrolment. Now the students of Modern Languages have again become the largest group in the school. It is possible that this change may be a mere fluctuation without any deeper significance, but the marked increase in the number of students of Modern Languages is certainly noteworthy...
...modern university is a miniature of the modern world, embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation...
...Modern education has devised expedients which give free rein in a large latitude to the individual fancy. The sense of community of interest among many working in several fields for a common aim favors breadth and vision...
...Modern Theatre," Mr. F. W. C. Hersey, Emerson J. The lecture will be illustrated with slides of stage settings by Gordon Craig. Bakst, Joseph Urban. Robert Edmond Jones, and other artists and producers...