Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that college education is a failure. On the contrary it is the greatest force for progress in modern civilization. The question is simply, How can the great investment in intellectual pursuits be made to pay the maximum dividend, not in money, but in ideas and in improvement of the capacity...
...Cercle Francais production this year will consist of three one-act pieces, a mystery play, a comedy, and a farce. These are "L'Intruse," a modern mystery play, by Maeterlinck; "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," a comedy dealing with modern French manners, by Brieux; and "Les Deux Courds," a farce by Moinaux. Two performances, one in Agassiz House on December 7, and one in Boston on December 8 or 9, will be given...
...Renwick will describe the machine gun and its operation, and will also show how it is used in modern warfare tactics, and explain its value and the great part it has played in all the campaigns of the present European war. The moving pictures will show how the mechanism of the standard machine gun works, and the manoeuvres of an automatic machine rifle company as carried on by the United States Army and the state militias. The meeting also aims to stimulate interest in the cause of preparedness in this country by explaining one kind of military work...
Conditions are that the subject of the play must be American and modern, and the author must be a bona fide undergraduate in an American college or university up to the time the contest closes, on June 1, 1916. Approval of the faculty will be required in each case before students may become contestants...
...Modern Language Conference. "Latin-American Literature," by Professor M. de O. Lima, in the Common Room, Conant Hall...