Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor E. Allison Peers of the University of Liverpool will give a public lecture in English tonight at 5 o'clock in Emerson J. Professor Peers, Visiting Professor of Modern Comparative Literature at Columbia University this year, has been at the University of Liverpool since 1920 when he succeeded the great Cervanies scholar, James Fizmaurice-Kelly, as Professor of Spanish...
...Professor Peers founded the Modern Humanities Research Association, an international body for research in modern languages and literatures, and is now its secretary. He also organized a yearly vacation course in Spanish held in the north of Spain. He is an honorary member of the American Association of the Teachers of Spanish, and a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America...
Enthusiastic dance-addicts crowded Symphony Hall 'Tuesday evening, to see the first Boston appearance of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, (pronounced, incidentally, Yorghi). Small wonder at the enthusiasm, because this German couple came heralded with more superlatives than usual,--the leading exponents of the Modern Dance, the world's greatest dancers...
...marks the first step that has been taken to provide for a continuance of Harvard's place in the American theater since the Forty Seven Workshop was discontinued. In former times that course furnished an impetus that has resulted in a great number of the most prominent figures in modern dramatic circles. Recently the possibility of reproducing men of equal caliber has seemed very remote owing to the absence of any training facilities. The new school with the opportunity it affords for dramatic expansion at least revives the hope that the glorious days of Harvard playwrights and producers...
...increasing trend toward concentration in Economics shown in the recently published figures of the Committee on the Choice of Electives might at first appearances seem to indicate an increased desire on the part of college men to be well acquainted with modern affairs. But unfortunately many of these men are interested in Economics because they believe it to be an open sesame to a fortune or else a direct preparation for the Law and Business School. Such narrowing influences should be avoided...