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...gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an exact picture of an epoch...
...Harvard into the new and uncertain waters of the "house plan" and will accept the gift originally offered her two years ago by Mr. E. H. Harkness in order to carry it out, is unlikely to be received with an unalloyed enthusiasm. President Angell describes the gift as "of epoch-making significance in the life of the undergraduate" and the undergraduate is notably resistant to anything which threatens to make epochs for him. Yale has perhaps been more successful than Harvard in adapting the traditional forms of American collegiate life to the changed conditions and uncertain responsibilities of modern life...
...that is so, the new plan can be tested out gradually as a hopeful experiment, strong in promise but to be checked against experience. One may still doubt whether even the best architecture and the most carefully planned system of living arrangements can in themselves produce epoch-making change in anything which is so much a matter of growth and natural development as undergraduate life. But the fact that Yale has determined upon so radical a departure from her accustomed ways is indicative at once of the pressure of modern conditions (conditions which they have themselves helped to create) upon...
...signature of 72 German best minds-such men as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht (president of the Reichsbank), Albert Einstein (relativity), Novelist Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Chancellor of Germany Hermann Miiller, Chairman Theodor Leipart of the associated German trades unions-the manifesto read: "After an epoch in which the victor states [in the War] . . . sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign...
BEETHOVEN THE CREATOR-Remain Holland-Harper ($5). "I will refresh my eyes, a last time, at the sun of Beethoven," begins virile Author Holland. "The whole being of a Beethoven ... is representative of a certain European epoch. . . . He is not the shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane...