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...William Brewster Ely and his generation will also have a far better chance than college students of today to learn about the thing that has been Dr. Ely's intellectual passion for more than 50 years. Of his land school, Dr. Ely said last week: "It is something epoch-making." To understand what he meant it is necessary to have some conception of what land-Land whence taxes come, Land on which houses are built. Land which produces things-has meant to Dr. Ely. When he left Johns Hopkins in 1892, Dr. Ely went to the University of Wisconsin...
...insists on venting whenever the slightest occasion offers itself. At the beginning he makes it clear that the Victorians were building their house upon sand; he spectre of the unleashed machine haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than...
...France-Prussian War--Violent end of epoch," Professor Binkley, Harvard...
...France-Prussian War Violent end of epoch," Professor Binkley, Harvard...
...prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...