Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame. The old and reiterated cry against the rigidity of the required entrance examinations has in it more than a measure of truth. At the same time it is undeniable that the schools themselves have failed to look beyond mere set requirements, many of which, in the light of modern educational investigation, have been shown to be of little value in developing the boy either for continued work in college or for life...
...present time, there does not seem to be any method for determining from preliminary test whether a cable will stand up in service or not. In other words, the cable is the weakest link in the modern power system. Moreover, cables have not been designed to operate on voltages commensurate with those employed for overhead lines...
...might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what the Italian experiment of forcing this development for purposes of general representation certainly does bring about is a rather complete elimination of parliamentary processes. For such organizations, resting upon the interest groups, effectively thwarts the organization of political parties...
Over 1,000 people crowded into the large lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday afternoon to hear Professor Arthur Pope '01 speak on "The Various Phases of Modern Movements in French Art." The audiences yesterday and on Wednesday, when Professor Paul Sachs '00 delivered the first of the two addresses, were the largest and most diversified that have ever attended such events in the Museum...
...leading strings or allowed the free reins of natural social intercourse, it is evident that the older generation of graduates sentimentally think of him in terms of the pre-war Harvard of their youth. The younger graduate would be the better authority on the problem of how sadly the modern Harvard man needs the House Plan...