Word: modernisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold Coast Orchestra will lend a more than modern touch in its first spring appearance away from Cambridge, with futuristic interpretations of "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "Pale Moon" by way of contrast to selections such as those from Chaminade, Nevin and Kreisler which will be presented by the Mandolin Club and specialty numbers...
...graduate of Union Theological Seminary in 1884. Since 1905 he has been Chairman of the Board of College Preachers, and since 1915. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He is the author of many books on theological subjects, wrote "The Spread of Christianity in the Modern World" and "West and East" in 1919, and in 1925 was editor, with Professor A. T. Davison, of "The Harvard University Hymn Book...
...reassuring that a great university and its experts should take an active part in such a creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems...
...educational possibilities of the movies are enormous," he said. "Movies are exceedingly practicable in schools and colleges, for they furnish a means of instruction which does not the the student. The modern era is one of rapidity, and the cinema supplies instruction which conforms to the spirit of the times. Movies will be supplemented by books; books will be illustrated by movies...
Sculptor Davidson put on the suits, struck attitudes in which he had seen the Senator, observed the folds of the fabric and recalled details. In the statue the modern clothing never obtrudes but serves to interpret the figure...