Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a capital hit at "art moderne" in the page headed "Gift Suggestions in the Modern Spirit." There is perhaps a little too much flattery of Fougasse--three pages of small, serial drawings are rather a big dose, even for those who have formed the habit Blackburn's drawings are a good corrective: he wields a broad brush, and his humor is not thin...
...unusual feature of this year's production is the use of modern terms, actions, and dress in the Moliere play, although the author's original lines are but little change. Y. H. Buhier '20, former president of the club, and W. B. Cowen, Jr. '29 are in charge of this year's presentation, assisted by W. F. Pederson '31, F. E. Bissel '31, N. B. Parker '30, W. M. Dunn '30, S. R. Johnson '29 and W. M. Randol...
...from the estate of the late Alice Longfellow according to the terms of her will which was filed in the Middlesex Probate Court yesterday. This sum which was one of many public bequests is to constitute a perpetual fund in honor of her father who held a professorship in modern languages in the University. The gift stipulates that this fund is to be known as the Henry Wads worth Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies of the belles letters. Since the will...
...most Shinto temples were administered by the Buddhist clergy. That state of things lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces of the amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories...
...series of exhibits already planned includes one on contemporary American art, in every field, one on decorative art, one on the "London School" of painters, one on works of arts by Harvard students, and one on modern French and German book printing...