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...produced for other faculties. Among them: Sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross (now at Wisconsin), Dr. Hartley Burr Alexander (Scripps College, California), Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter (Dean of Northwestern Medical School), Law Dean Roscoe Pound (Harvard). On Wisconsin's staff Dr. Hicks will be in the good company of Experimentalist Alexander Meiklejohn, Law Dean Lloyd Garrison, Agricultural College Dean Chris Lauriths Christenson, Agriculture Professor Asher Hobson, all acquired by Wisconsin since Dr. Frank became president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Western Shift | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Poet Hart Crane was one of 16 signers of a Proclamation appearing in transition (experimentalist Paris quarterly), June 1929. Said the Proclamation: "We hereby declare that: (1) The revolution in the English language is an accomplished fact. . . . (12) The plain reader be damned." Hart Crane is noted among left-wing litterateurs for his "mighty line," is credited with writing the mightiest line now extant. In this book, a series of poems on the U. S., mighty lines abound. Examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bridge-Builder | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Story. The three "tales" in this little book are called: The Mookse and the Gripes, The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump, The Ondt and the Gracehoper. So far, only Parts I and II of Work in Progress have been printed: in transition, experimentalist quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers: by the influence of his writing on other authors Joyce has affected, will affect, the English language as no other man has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...property of complex situations that studies of them usually result in a confirmation of the prejudices of the observer. Only the trained experimentalist can keep from selecting those features of the situation which prove his point and neglect the other pertinent but obscure factors. Edward J. O'Brien is not a trained social experimentalist. In "Dance of the Machines' 'he does succeed in focussing a brilliant spot-light upon many of the deadening influences of the machine upon the American mind, but he is far from successful in proving that the machine and its concimmitants give rise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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