Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these are necessary for modern citizenship, and a liberal arts college should not ignore them...
...That it is not the business of the poet to teach virtue is an absurdly modern theory," said Heathcote William Garrod, delivering the first of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures last night in the Large Fogg Lecture Room, before an audience that filled the hall to capacity...
Commenting on the poetry of the twentieth century, he quoted a statement of a modern poetess, who said the "sublimity of the older poetry has gone out of fashion...
...problem of amateurism regarding both college and non-college athletics has been so hotly discussed of recent years that no situation even remotely connected with it can escape the searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...
...interest that besides regular city planning courses, the following are listed in the curriculum: in the first year, Fine Arts 1d, History of Mediaeval, Renaissance, and Modern Art; in the second year, Social Ethics 30, housing problems and the social aspects of Town Planning; and in the third year, Government 17a, Municipal Government, and Government 17b, Municipal Administration...