Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last in the series of Lowell Institute lectures by Professor R. P., Strong, of the Medical School, will be given in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the lecture is "Epidemics in Relation to Modern Armies...
...rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg is Prime Minister of England?"--The New Republic...
...Giotto and His Followers," in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock. At the same time Professor R. M. Johnston will lecture on "The French Railroads during the War of 1870-71" in Emerson A. Professor H. C. Biedwirth '84 will address the Modern Language Conference on "Preparedness" and 'Efficiency' from the Point of View of a Teacher of Elementary German," in the common room of Conant Hall this evening at 8 o'clock...
...Physical Conference. "Thee Modern Theory of Electric Conduction in Metals." II., by Prof. E. H. Hall in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room 3. University Fencing team meets Bowdoin...
...action, and must, in order to meet people of all classes successfully, have a knowledge and appreciation of the interests which are common to people who are educated. The art of expressing oneself freely, which is one of the objects of this course, is necessary for the engineer, since modern engineering requires him to appear before commissions, boards, and public bodies to present his material in non-technical form, and in a limited time. But in addition to the practical advantage of the training the aim is to give a liberal background to a specialized field which is ordinarily pursued...