Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prophet. If Elijah prophesied today, would it be News? The 14th Edition contains the words of a modern prophet. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Writing on the Mormons, of which he is one, he says: "Here [in Jackson County, Mo.] a holy city is yet to be built by the Church, a new Jerusalem, into which will be gathered those of all nations...
...architecture, Vienna's Josef Hofmann declares: "Skyscrapers are un- luckily marred by unharmonious architecture; on the other hand, a granary of the Washburn-Crosby Co., built in Minneapolis in 1920, is an absolute model" [of the "modern intention" of "letting a construction speak for itself...
...reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government, in 1917 . . . adopted it [boxing] as an important means for quickly fitting untrained men for rigorous soldier-life. . . . The modern boxer realizes that unless he is mentally equipped his chances for success are very slim...
When England builds a new university it does not reproduce Oxford or try to do so. The founders would be more apt to study the University of Illinois as containing what is relevant to modern life...
Perhaps Harvard has discovered that the medieval made possible the modern and still has potential power. It is by a blending of the old and the new that true progress is made. To be dubbed "Victorian" is to be considered old fashioned, conservative, and even stagnant; to be classed as "medieval" implies unenlightenment, ignorance, and superstition. Yet "Victorian" and "medieval" also connote something fundamental and worth while in the shifting educational atmosphere of the present. Occasionally a term of derision becomes a symbol of strength and mental stability. Williams Alumni Bulletin