Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years they will study in classes only the 100 classics, no modern thinkers, no modern science." TIME apparently substantiates this by listing the books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years...
...John's College seniors, TIME gladly restores their "modern thinkers." TIME regrets that it received incomplete information on St. John's curriculum. The college has no courses, however, in contemporary affairs, includes among its 100 classics few 20th-Century scientists...
...responsibility and must be our destiny to prove to ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
...laboratory lightning differs from starlight, so do the masterpieces of such kinetic moderns as Dali and Picasso seem to differ from those of past times. But other modern artists like to shine in some tranquillity, and of this steady sort two experts had exhibitions in Manhattan last week...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...