Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...decision of the Harvard Summer School to offer courses designed to equip more fully coaches of small colleges and secondary schools in the modern refinements of many sports is no innovation as far as colleges in general are concerned. Many other colleges have been giving such courses for a number of years, while Harvard has lagged behind, offering such instruction only on a limited scale. Now she is approaching the place she occupies in other branches of education...
Comparative Literature 36, consisting of a study of European Comedy, will by given by Professor D. J. Campbell of the University of Michigan. This course deals with the distinctive methods of comparative literature as they are applied to the study of the principal movements in modern European comedy from its inception in Italy during the fifteenth century until the present...
...Compulsion. Inasmuch as virtually all modern wars are theoretically wars of self-defense, the question immediately arose as to what would prevent a war between two nations, each going to battle under a self-defense plea. Senator Borah admitted that the treaty in no way prevented such a possibility. "A nation must answer to the tribunal of public opinion as to her right to go to war," said he. "The only censor of her action is the power of public opinion...
...surplus of $50,000,000, undivided profits of $13,377,018 and other items (notably $96,819,425 in trade acceptances) made up the $1,052,211,198. Fewer than that number of dollars have been the number of minutes elapsed since Jesus was born or modern time calculated...