Word: moderns
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...George B. Sohier prize of $250 is for the best theses presented by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature. The competitors may be undergraduates in the college, Harvard graduates resident as Graduate School students, or students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. $450 has been divided into fourteen prizes, ranging from $20 to $40, which will be given to students of Semitic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, but only in case a high degree of excellence is attained. For the best...
After reading the article, Professor Royce discussed it, informally, with the members of the Union. The key-note, he said, of the modern idea in Ethics is that what should be sought is not, as the Utilitarians said, the greatest sum-total of good, but the highest organization, - the greatest good which can be obtained while still keeping development of the individual; in other words the modern idea is the greatest good to the greatest number of distinct individuals, as opposed to the Utilitarian idea of the greatest sum of good...
...celebration. In some respects, it might be called a Christmas art number; for the frontispiece is a reproduction of the painting of "The Holy Family" by Du Mond, a young American artist, who presents in this picture an original conception of the subject. The number also contains engravings of modern pictures relating to Christmas as follows...
...Concerts was given last night in Sanders Theatre before the usual large audience. Mme. Helen Hopekirk, who appeared in Walker Hall, Amherst, two days ago, for the first time this season in America, was the soloist. The programme was a varied one, including a Suite by MacDowell, representing the modern school and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony composed in the early part of this century, and Rubinstein's Concerto for Pianoforte in G major. The work of Mme. Hopekirk was very favorably received; her wonderful accuracy and precision in the most intricate parts of the Concerto showed plainly her mastery...
...Christmas Atlantic is replete with good things. Among other excellent articles, one that will be sure to interest Harvard men is one on "The Modern Art of Painting in France" by Professor Charles H. Moore, the Assistant Professor in Fine Arts. Mr. Moore thinks that the modern school with all its merits, has failed thus far to fulfill the promise of the earlier ages, that the springs of inspiration are exhausted because the light of the spirit no longer guides the imagination in its conseptions of forms of beauty, and that the qualities of the modern school are not those...