Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1910 when extension work was initiated the enrollment has jumped from 863 to 1440, the number of course from 16 to 27. Most number of courses among 17 departments are in Literature. Robert S. Hillyer '17 Boyslton Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory has been giving a course in Modern Poetry...
...lectures, which are given for students of Harvard and Radcliffe concentrating in ancient and modern literature, will be broadcast from Emerson Hall on successive Wednesday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock, as follows: February 16, Homer, by Carl N. Jackson '98, professor of Greek and Latin; February 23, Herace, by Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin; March 2, Milton, by J. N. Douglas Bush, professor of English; March 9, Moliere, by Louis Cons, professor of French Literature...
...what it will probably be in the future. Britain's submarine program and most of Japan's plans are big secrets, hence the question marks. All three nations have overage ships, ships that are out of commission or demobilized. Figures in parentheses give the number of modern ships of each group actually in service...
Shadow and Substance (by Paul Vincent Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling). Last season Eddie Dowling's production of Shakespeare's King Richard II, with Maurice Evans, attracted big business and critical bravos. Last week he did it again, this time with a modern Irish religious play, first given a year ago in Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre...
...companion-picture. "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," returns to more orthodox lines, and shows a gangster (Leo Carillo) kidnap Ted Louis. Cab Calloway, Kay Thompson, and their respective ensembles (played by themselves) and make them perform in a recording studio which he has just acquired. The various types of modern music are satisfactorily rendered, but the story and dialogue are weak...