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...pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great leader signified. And if they were equally bewildered at the presence of numerous sahibs at the funeral...
...meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance on traditional literature and their wilful neglect of contemporary documents and archaeological evidence. Their day, or rather, their night is over; for the literary dilletante cannot face the pure light of historical truth which emanates from this epoch-making report...
Lord Balfour spoke in his best Eton and Cambridge manner, dwelt upon the significance of the event in which all were participating and which had brought people from all the earth's cubbyholes. He touched briefly on the history of the surrounding sights and asseverated: "A new epoch has begun within the Palestine which came to an end so many hundred years ago." There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted...
...Boston Museum was the most famous theatre in the country for a score of years before its close in 1903. Mr. E. E. Clive, manager of the Copley Theatre, pointed to it as the rallying standard of an epoch, when in a recent speech he said, "Years ago, in the days of the Boston Museum, Boston was an important producing center...
...Guggenheim Foundation which has just been announced marks another epoch in this movement. It affords the freest possible opportunities for advanced study and research in the sciences, learned professions, and fine arts. No age limits are prescribed, the fellowships will be open to both men and women of every race, color and creed. The awards will enable students to "carry on their studies in any country in the world where they can work most profitably," Mr. Guggenheim states as the purpose of the foundation to "improve the quality of education" and the "practice of the arts and professions...