Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current issue of the Atlantic Monthly there is published and article by R. K. Hack on "The Case for humility" which every member of American educational institutions, both undergraduates and faculty, would do well to read. Mr. Hack has attempted to bring peace to the continually warring Modernist and Humanist parties, but not in any weak, timid spirit--he does not tell these men to stop fighting because the present educational system is correct. Far from it! But Mr. Hack does print out that the only thunder the Modernist has is that the Humanist is all wrong, while the continuous...
...opportunity afforded by the Speakers' Club of discussing and gaining intimate knowledge of the issues of today is in line with this modernist movement. And the project begins auspiciously with an address by Professor Taft, who has not only been in the current of things but has guided its trend. He comes to plead the necessity of the increase of civic interest among students. The authority of so eminent a jurist, if not the eagerness of undergraduates, should give him a numerous and well-disposed audience...