Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Others, however, offer striking examples of modern beauty with a light struck Latin-American tinge. Because the photographs portray several types of Mexican architecture from early Baroque to modern utilitarian schools, they are sure to be of interest to students in any one of the architectural fields. Pictures of modern low-cost housing units in Mexico City are side by side with views of 16th century Franciscan arches...
...comparison, the rudimentary works of modern children and adults are shown to be strikingly similar to those of earlier artists in historic times...
...Pacific Coast. As its conquest went on, great football teams sprang up in region after region to contest the supremacy of the sections where football first reigned. To the South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test was revealing. Princeton repulsed the invaders...
...schools of architecture so much as is the record of the needs, materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered for years by the great Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Many architects consider this tradition inadequate because, while not necessarily inimical to modern developments it is "paper architecture" which fails to get at the root of modern building needs...
...Since modern financing of Culture is an elaborate business, President Gates appointed as general drive chairman Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., as national alumni committee head Equitable Life's President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson. Then he hired the John Price Jones money-raising organization, which started a year ago approaching Penn's 55.000 alumni. By this week, when the campaign formally opened, $1,000,000 of the $12,500,000 had already been raised. To take three years, the drive is timed to culminate in the University's bicentennial celebration...