Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conflict between the ancient tribal religion and the modern manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from...
...French 2, German A, la, and lb that are painfully dull and distasteful chiefly because of their elementary nature, but also as a result of the abridged text-books used. In the United States there has recently begun a movement to improve these educational editions for which the modern language department presents the most pertinent demands. As it is now, the books used create little but a dislike for foreign literature; whereas, if they were exchanged for complete editions, reading them would at least satisfy the curiosity of those who feel the need of a through investigation of their subjects...
...Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long run into what field of business they entered. The history of many of the greatest figures in modern American industry shows that the field of their successes was chosen almost entirely by chance. Granted a modicum of brains and energy to start with, the indecision displayed by college students as to their intentions may be due to the simple fact that there is no one field in which...
Professor Sachs will give an illustrated lecture in Fogg lecture room this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "Aspects of Modern French Painting and Drawing." A second lecture on the same subject will be given at the same time and place tomorrow by Professor Pope. Modern French painting is also the subject of attention on the part of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, which is now exhibiting the works of Braque, Bonnard, Brancusi, Leger, Maillol, Segonzac and others in its rooms at 207.8, Harvard Cooperative Building...
...Aspects of Modern Painting" will be discussed by members of the Fogg Art Museum in two lectures this week. P. J. Sachs '00, professor of Fine Arts and Associate Director of the Museum, will speak tomorrow and Professor Arthur Pope '01 will treat the same subject on Thursday. Both lectures will be at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public...