Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Daily News last week published some paragraphs by President Hoover. Excerpts: "The need for college graduates in state and national politics is the need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life. ... As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is ... obvious." ¶ To the White House last week went a 14 ¼-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace...
Today at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 Professor C. D. Burns of the University of Glasgow and formerly of the London School of Economics will lecture on the subject, "Modern Developments in the Art of Government." The lecture will be one of the regular series of talks given by visiting professors in Government...
...poem deal with the adventures of the spirits of Raleigh, Drake, and other explorers, voyaging among the stars in the period following the World War. The reading will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the discoveries of modern astronomy. It will be open to the public...
...engine, as it stands now, takes the place of the famous old Lampoon engine which Bob Lampoon and his associates purchased several years ago from the town of Sandwich, when that colony on the Cape replaced its old engine with modern fire apparatus. Lampy always brought his engine to the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon ball game and at one time parked it in front of the CRIMSON building from which vantage point it pumped water on all the editors who were on the balcony. This however is the only time that the engine ever-pumped water after its purchase...
...value of the exhibition is not so much that of a spectacle as it is of a visual encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound...