Word: ism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though "rah-rah-ism" is contemptuously viewed as a thing of the past at Yale, we must take caution lest we completely strip from our college life something of the past that is still vital and of value. We point with pride to the passage of mushy sentimentalism, yet there are very few of us who do not feel the same loyalty to Yale that our fathers and predecessors felt...
...expect to see either a return to classicism or a departure into symbolism. In fact, I should be very sorry to see an 'ism' become the style. Symbolism is very indefinite and is useful only to denote a group of French writers. Classicism cannot be returned to, for one does not return to classics or to anything else. It is for posterity to discover that we are 'classical...
Further, although the course is obviously intended for men interested primarily in economics, there seems small reason in this day why men in any walk would not welcome a chance to investigate the mysteries of ism and ocracies. And since Economics A is the present prerequisite, there seems small reason why that requirement could not be altered to allow any student with a satisfactory background in Economics to undertake the course. That background could easily be acquired through even a brief study of some text of basic principles...
This befuddlement arises mainly from failure to distinguish between the serious industrial and economic problem which intelligent folk have long admitted, and the particular "ism" adumbrated by a word. Technocracy, which was invented by William Henry Smyth...
Just when the country was most despairing of being run by an engineer in the White House, there emerged in New York a movement, a new "ism," to have the country run by all its 300,000 engineers and technical experts. Technocracy was the new "ism's" name and its proponents styled themselves Technocrats Headquartered at Columbia University they announced that, employing three dozen unemployed engineers, architects and draftsmen, they were conducting an "Energy Survey of North America." Startling was their array of statements about technological unemployment, mankind's machines destroying mankind's chance to earn a living "under...