Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally produced in 1924 by John Liston, the modern version is supported by Russell Ryan, Jr. '40, with Kenneth C. R. white directing the production. The D. D. Fraternity plans a formal dance following the Friday performance, and an informal dance on Saturday...
...committee is composed of E. Merrick Dodd Jr. '10, professor of Law; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Harlow Shapely, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Kenneth Murdock, professor of English; Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law; and William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
...that modern life is a very complex affair is even more true than it is platitudinous. This complexity has confounded governments when they have attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...manifest that acts of wanton lawlessness and of arbitrary force are threatening world peace and the very structure of modern civilization...
...great Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) tried to measure the velocity of light by means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...