Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot will be the chief speaker at the special meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, to be held at Boston University today at 10.30 o'clock. He is to deliver an address on "The Modern School," the subject having particular reference to the general movement known under that name, and exemplified by the Lincoln School. The Lincoln School is an institution in New York City now being operated under the guidance of Mr. Abraham Flexner as an experiment, by the Rockefeller Institute. The purpose of this special meeting today is to have the association...
...lecture this evening will relate to the function of the airplane as an offensive weapon, and also as an aid to the other branches of the service at the front. Every phase of the use of aviation in modern warfare will be taken up, and many lantern slides will be used by the speaker to illustrate the points brought up in the address...
...boys have been reading, which is a good sign; one of them has been reading a real, modern, Russian novel, and enthusiastically reviews "The Bracelet of Garnets." A mere review is not enough for Mr. La Farge, who, under cover of Lowes Dickinson's heavy artillery, dauntlessly assaults the Catholic Church in America and all the other churches in America. Unfortunately he has not reconnoitered the enemy's position; he knows very little about Protestant theology, and less, if anything, about Catholic theology, discipline, education, or policy. Nor has he waited for ammunition; he has not even facts enough...
Before the Foxcroft Dining Hall reopens on or about April 1, extensive improvements will have been made in the building. The dining room itself will be refurbished, the service department enlarged, and more modern equipment, including refrigerating facilities, will be installed before the building is again ready for the use of members of the University. On January 23 Foxcroft was swept by a fire which destroyed some $7,000 worth of property. Since then carpenters from the University repair department have been engaged in restoring the hall...
...sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack's constructive ideas or not, it is great relief to find in his work a fearless bidding to Mr. Flexner and his opponents to stop their howling. The world is tired of fighting over terms. If there are faults with modern education, negative criticism alone will not go far toward curing them...