Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last day for receiving theses of candidates for degree of Ph.D. in 1917 in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government and Economics...
...teacher should re-write such antiquated authors as Bacon, Shakespere, and Ben Jonson, putting them into up-to-date American English and giving them an American code of morality? It is so annoying to have to bother with an old idiom. It is for this reason, too, that a modern writer should tell us all about Rome for he not only is in a better position to judge of the life of the first century A.D. than would be a Pliny the Younger or a Juvenal, but he would give the information in so accessible...
...best choir masters of the country speak on his own subject. So large has been the demand for seats that Dr. Davison will repeat each of the seven lectures which will cover the entire development of choral music from the earliest church music down to the modern French and Russian composers of the twentieth century. Examples of the songs of the various periods and countries will be given by well-trained choruses from the New England Conservatory, Appleton Choir, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The purpose of these lectures is in every way "popular." To those who know little...
...Graduate School of Business Administration has opened a new department, intended to provide students in the School with a knowledge of the tools and technique of business research. This consists of a laboratory in which students may examine and test all the labor-saving devices in use in modern business work. The Faculty had already obtained permission from over 150 business concerns in Boston, Cambridge and neighboring cities for students to examine their plants and business methods. The manufacturers of labor-saving devices for business purposes were then asked, on a basis of mutual advantage, to place their machines...
...Hillyer's reverie on an Elizabethan May-Day is cleverly contrived, with its pleasant descriptions and its snatches of old songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...