Word: modernism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Pierce Hall, Room 110, Professor C. H. Berry will deliver the sixth and last lecture of a series of popular lectures on engineering. The subject of his talk will be "Modern Steam Machinery...
...decision of the faculty to place the advanced French and German examinations of the College Entrance Board on equality with Latin Cp 4 as a satisfaction of the language requirements logically rounds out the recent acceptance for entrance credit of a fourth year at school of a modern language. A slow moving policy of freeing the undergraduate years from most elementary work is thus advanced. And the path of those who are prepared is cleared of the annoying obstacle of a reading examination or college course in a foreign language...
...Lady From the Sea. Miss Blanche Yurka is entitled to one of the awards of the season for her loyalty to Henrik Ibsen. In a year which has been marked by the presentation of a great number of dull modern plays, theatre-goers have not been allowed to forget Ibsen's searching studies. Her selection of this strange, borderland work is not altogether fortunate. It is not so easy of interpretation as The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler, her other offerings, nor is its principal character so suited to Miss Yurka...
...Reconstruction Bonds" every twelvemonth. Thus, said Mr. Sun, China "could" raise the annual $250,000,000 requisite to carry out the following Sun Program: 1) Complete the $3,000,000 tomb of Saint Sun Yat-sen in Nanking, a project already well begun; 2) Rebuild Nanking as a "modern capital," with a "White Hall" for the President of China and "Six Civic Quarters"− governmental, educational, commercial, industrial, residential and celestial−the latter to be the "Purple Hills Quarter" containing the tomb of Saint Sun; 3) Level the walls of Ancient Nanking as the walls of Paris were leveled...
...born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles for the Byzantine ceiling of the Union Dime Savings Bank in Manhattan, or a bathroom...