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"This state, of affairs in Harvard if I understand it, is particularly significant being, as it is, a reflection of the attitude of the American people. The most frightful thought to us in England is that you Americans seem not to release that you are the dominant nation of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERTRAND RUSSELL SCORES INTELLECTUAL QUARANTINE | 4/11/1924 | See Source »

At once it is obvious that the success of this institution would largely affect the future of the world. Just what the intellectual attainments of the yogis consist in is rather indefinite; but the emotions of saints nothing could be more helpful in the solution of modern world problems! And...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MEN LIKE GODS." | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

You are welcome to use the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Railroads Unbiblical | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

The itinerant Wagnerian Opera Com- pany went to Manhattan and encountered a mixed reception. It opened there with Die Meistersinger. That was unfortunate. It had to meet the severest and most direct competition in the superb Meistersinger which Mr. Bodanzky conducted at the Metropolitan, one of the very finest performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wagnerians | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

Victor Herbert, America's best known composer of music and the one without doubt best dowered with native talent, is conducting a cinema orchestra in Manhattan, the picture being Little Old New York. Herbert wrote the incidental music for the play. This is something of a novelty. And yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Movie Music | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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