Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashioned Harvard individualist, and an opponent of the 'undifferentiated efficiency' of the modern college and university. I believe that these institutions should be reserved for men who plan to enter the advanced professions, such as toaching. Harvard, among others, is taking a great many men for whom a college equation is an expensive, and useless, luxury...
Professor Garrod edited the Oxford Book of Latin Verse in 1912. He is the author of numerous books of criticism, and the editor of several editions of verse, both classical and modern. At one time he was editor of the Journal of Philology...
...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...
...know Greek grammar and composition; four books of the Anabasis; three of the Iliad; Latin grammar and composition; seven books of Caesar's Commentaries; six books of the Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability to the mode. And education, like...
...year's program is a concert in Symphony Hall on Thursday, December 12 in which 70 members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Harvard Glee Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society to present a program among whose numbers will be "The Hymn to Jesus" by the modern composer, Gustave Holst, whose work has never before been open to the Boston public...