Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine grants to Harvard professors were voted from this fund, which is to be used over a period of five years, by the committee of five recently appointed to administer the yearly appropriations. The Division of Ancient Languages and the Division of Modern Languages are given aid in the publication of Harvard Studies in Philology. E. K. Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing...
...Modern Aspects of Police Administration", Deputy Superintendent Thomas F. Goode, Harvard...
...type of publication made possible by these awards is just as vital to Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since the modern study of the humanities is really in the scientific manner. The archaeologist, the philologist, the historian must be quite as definitely and concretely trained in his own work as the student of chemical research is in his, and, what is more important, must be nearly as well equipped financially...
...director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...
...Wiener, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature in the University, will speak at a Modern Language Conference to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Conant Hall on "Celtic and Arabic Sources of John of Salisbury...