Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial writer must of necessity be supercritical or he would not be in the newspaper business, much less in that peculiar branch of sophisticated criticism that goes by the name of editorial writing. For aside from other considerations, it is the attempt of nearly every modern newspaper to lead rather than to portray public opinion in its editorial columns. The mail, published daily, and consisting of the interested contributions of enthusiastic or irate readers of the editorial columns is sufficient testimony to the diversity of opinion. And, as is obvious, such questions that may have two sides, representing enough partisan...
...features of the CRIMSON is the bi-monthly edition of the Bookshelf, a magazine devoted to reviews of the latest in the literary world. The critics, both undergraduates and professors, make no attempt to survey the complete field of modern writing but restrict themselves to those books which a conservative judgement leads to believe them to be of more than ephemeral value...
From time to time there are short reviews printed in a feature column of the CRIMSON editorial, page under the title of Bookends. For the average student whose limited time precludes a widespread reading of modern poetry and prose these reviews are of great value in the selection of worthwhile literature...
...society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These are the subalterns whom experience fashions into commanders. These are the men who have made themselves fit to learn and improve the art and science of business management...
...small theological school it was settled a good distance from the Charles river. It was not a purely haphazard chance that caused the college to build the embryonic Yard with its back to the river for the malaria infested swamps were something to be avoided in the days before modern hygienic conditions...