Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight or nine full professorships has been the average figure over the last 15 years," declared Frederick G. White, Secretary of the Department of English and Secretary of the Division of Modern Languages. "In the middle thirties the number swelled, reaching its high-point of 11 during the 1937-38 academic year...
...others directly. Nevertheless, John N. Bush, Professor of English, who was promoted in 1937, certainly relaces Professor Lowes in a scholarly sense. George W. Sherburn, Professor of English, appointed in 1939, assumes Professor Greenough's former position. Howard M. Jones, Professor of English and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages, joined the English staff...
...unusual amount of modern music, much of it of very recent composition, has been played here this season, and many people have been surprised to see that a rather marked tendency toward romanticism and lyricism seems to be succeeding the hard-boiled harshness of a few years...
...course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even the composers who adopted the starkest writing of the post-war period seem to have modified their attitude recently...
...presses each year roll some 500 books, innumerable pamphlets and magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...