Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field will be covered in the spirit characteristic of modern scientific work of its kind, and will take up the effects of the physical factors which have so largely controlled the settlement and industrial life of the continent...
...editorial which aims briskly to dispose of our fourth year of college is scarcely to be taken seriously. With our modern interest in graduate school specialization, many do "get through" in three years, it is true, but unless the majority of us have some such real inducement, we will all doubtless prefer to take our culture in the "good oldfashioned way." The four-year course may be largely sedentary, but, to use the words of Voltaire...
...third exhibit will portray the relation of Technology to the arts and to modern architecture. This room will contain examples of the work of artists, sculptors, and architects...
Picturing the message has become a well-established rule among the big advertisers of the country; picturing the story has become almost an essential to the success of the modern newspaper. Advertisers as well as newspaper editors have been quick to appreciate the value of photographic reproduction and the art department today is one of the most important factors in journalism. The vast majority of newspaper readers wish to see as well as read. Not a little of this change in attitude may be traced directly to the tremendous appeal which the movies have made upon the American public within...
...will be an exhibition in the new buildings, showing the progress in sciences and applied arts during the past fifty years. An unusual feature will be the demonstration of the great number of branches of science and applied knowledge necessary for the completion of a huge undertaking like a modern skyscraper or battleship. There will be diagrams showing the technical knowledge necessary for the construction of each part. Early models of the telephone, telegraph, and other important inventions will be shown, and with each will be given the part played by Technology in its perfection...