Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bacon in providing funds for the erection of a new boat house at Red Top carries forward another stage the project of improving crew quarters for the Yale race. Mrs. Bacon's gift, which closely follows the announcement of the building of the new Varsity Quarters, will provide entirely modern facilities where they have been much needed...
...such necessities as sufficient showers and drying rooms, the buildings used present a sorry contrast to those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable for the encounter that faces them...
...Wesleyan the audience voted in favor of the home team, which supported the affirmative of "Resolved, That this house deplores the large part that advertising plays in modern civilization." Wesleyan effectively opposed Harvard's claims that advertising is beneficial as an innovating influence, raises the standard of living, and is economically necessary. Representing the Crimson were D. I. Cooke '31 and S. G. Silverman...
...Griggs concluded by saying that modern universities ought to acquire a higher spiritual aim and a liberal culture over against the methodical and specialized methods they new have...
Perhaps in these times "Respect for law" which is our modern substitute for "love of the King's subjects toward their prince" is a feeble safeguard for the social well being. The subsequent history of Federal enforcement ought to provide President Hoover's Commission with an opportunity for a valuable study in criminology