Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to the castle of Chilon by steam and row boat. We saw the gloomey dungeons where the prisoners of yore were kept. We saw Lord Byrons name. The place where the prisoners were kept the night before they were hung. The place where hung. The modern baracks and prisons. We saw the prison where Boulden was kept and the stone worn away by his footsteps...
...establishing a new field of concentration in "Sociology and Social Ethics" the Faculty desires, as in the case of "History and Literature", to recognize an identity of subject matter that tends to be hidden by the more or less artificial barriers that separate the departments of a modern university. At the same time there is an equally strong desire to avoid the shallowness and sentimentality that are associated with what is called "breadth of view". Henry James once referred to the field of all things human and divine which was the topic of study at the Concord School of Philosophy...
...Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz frolic beneath multicolored lights to the tune of modern syncopation...
Henry I. Gilbert is eminently qualified to speak on contemporary music, since his name has stood among the best of American composers for nearly forty years. What his attitude toward the more drastic of modern modern compositions will be is hardly problematical. The rancous Symphonie Mechanique and Flivver Ten million are aberrations, extremes from which he is guarded by a native good taste. The cacaphoniesof the musical rebels of Europe and America have already reached the verge of sounds that would come even within a physical definition of music; they are, furthermore, of an international or rather unnational character, while...
...exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often and who attend modern performances of his dramas largely because it will give them an opportunity of referring to Booth, Irving, and the way they could act in the good old days...