Word: modernisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modern artists have apparently reached a stage of development which would defy even the criticism of the most conservative critics. A certain Mr. Deckinson of the individualist faith, having painted a picture entitled "The Fossil Hunters" in ghostly gray with a recumbent old man delicately pointing a twig in the general direction of a grind stone in the semi-abstract, won a five hundred dollar prize. Unfortunately, the photographer commissioned to take a picture of this work of art, being a conservative in the matter of posing and of regard for the limitations of his patrons, noted something amiss...
This view of the modern university was expressed yesterday by the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares, professor of Religious Education at the University of Chicago and member of the Harvard Board of Preachers who is conducting the morning services in Appleton Chapel this week...
...There are several of Harvard's most eminent scientists who are among the most sincerely religious men I know", he said. "Such professors are not attempting to unsettle the religious convictions of their pupils. They are merely trying to show them the modern point of view. They are seeking to show how religion expresses the highest values in our day just as it stood for the best that men saw in other days...
...goal towards which all educators of the modern type seem to be atriving is the development of a close relationship between the professor and the individual student. The adherents to this school of thought must have mingled feelings when they look at the statistics of some of the larger courses given in Harvard College which reveal the extent of mass production in education in its most massive aspects...
Mostly in measured language he uproots what seem to him some vulgar errors and takes his final stand with such modern mystics as Astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our life in it any less mysterious...