Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democracy is indeed on trial it seems obvious that Harvard should see to it that her graduates, as future leaders of the community, be prepared to take an intelligent position in the modern political scene. This means that they should be ready to vote intelligently and furthermore, able to argue and discuss politics intelligently. But the growing complexity of political problems has made such a preparation more and more difficult. It is no longer possible to obtain a grasp of modern conditions by means of the conventional training in the liberal arts. Some specific knowledge of the social sciences...
...like the beginnings of American architecture, how and why colonial houses have changed, and the bridge between your pure and modern or Frank Lloyd Wright style. Wright, by the way, is another great American influence in Europe...
...year period from Samuel Butler's Erewhon to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, writers have thrown tons of literary monkey wrenches into capitalism's mass-production machinery-with about the same effect as a man kicking the sideboard he stubbed his toe on. Machine-hating writers still evoke sympathetic response, but another school has lately gained ground...
Siegfried Giedion, of Switzerland, one of the most eminent writers on modern architecture in Europe, will open his series of public lectures as Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, tomorrow evening, in the Fogg Museum, at 8:30 o'clock. The topic of the first lecture will be "The Role of History Today...
Since 1928 Dr. Giedion has been the general secretary and leader of the International Congress of Contemporary Architecture. For the last three years he has been writing a study of the social background of modern times in relation to modern trends of building. He has traveled throughout Europe investigating the exact sources of all building questions, especially problems of social development following the introduction of the machine...