Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...several committees of the club will join together to force new boxing rules to supplant the Marquis of Queensberry code which has proved inadequate for modern needs. These rules when finally adopted will be known as the International Rules. As six of the seven world championships are held by America, it is only right and proper that she should have the credit for framing and initiating the new code...
...leader in the system of concentration, distribution and general examinations. The recent progressive steps taken by other universities have only in rare instances gone beyond what Harvard has already done. Perhaps the reason that Harvard has remained comparatively unchanged this year is that she was prepared to meet modern conditions before they...
...small part of the Museum's possessions, it is likely that other catalogs will be compiled shortly. Contained in the list of important collections never yet adequately recorded are the Chinese and Japanese prints, a small number of classical originals, and a considerable assemblage of Turners, Ruskins and modern water-colors and drawings...
...Last August", he said, "just before I sailed from Hankow for America, I received an invitation to tea from a group of prominent Chinese merchants of Hankow. The opinion they presented to me on the Shantung difficulty represents the sentiment of the more modern Chinese business men, for my friends were not Chinese officials whose views are steeped in imperialism. They had called me in because they knew I was about to leave for America and they wished me to convey their views on Shantung to my friends here in America. What they said may best be retold in somewhat...
...Professors C. H. Haskins LL. D., '08, R. H. Lord '06, and A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department of the University, will be the three lecturers who will discuss the problem of peace. Professor E. B. Hill of the Music Department will speak on "The Growth of Modern French Music." The other lectures will be delivered by Talcott Williams, professor emeritus of journalism and late director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, who will discuss "the Ottoman Empire," and Professor Maurice de Wulf of the University of Louvain, who will speak on "Monastic Life...