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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of their clear title to authority on the subject on which they write. These men are chosen judiciously. They are representative of learning in both its empirical and theoretical forms. Thus, it must be noted that the very long list contains such men as Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre Tardieu, French statesman of acknowledged gifts...
...year and "be learned and experienced in matters pertaining to the fine arts." The bill further states that "the purpose of the proposed Department of Fine Arts shall be to increase knowledge of the arts through official channels and to develop a taste for it, one of the greatest factors in the march of human progress...
...Bacon received on May 18, 1923 (TIME, May 28) the greatest tribute that can be bestowed on an American architect. On the evening of that day, in the shadow of his great memorial, whither he had been escorted by a most distinguished gathering of architects, artists, statesmen, he was presented with the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. This tribute had been given in all to six persons.* Warren G. Harding officiated in the pageant. In a laudatory speech, Royal Cortissoz said: "Has he [Bacon] not stated in enduring beauty the faith of a nation in an immortal...
Jacques Loeb is dead-the greatest exponent Since Haeckel of what he called "the mechanistic conception of life." And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed far more to the scientific verification of materialistic theories than did the greatest iconoclasts of an earlier day. The thesis to which he 'devoted his life of research might be stated briefly thus: "The activities as well as the origins of all living organisms, including human beings, are determined and motivated by physicochemical forces in their environments or inheritance." His experiments in support of this...
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian-Non-Co-operatist: "One Bishop Charles H. Brent, chancellor of Hobart College, N. Y., selected for his students the 'four greatest men of the 20th Cen-tury.' He named: Woodrow Wilson, Cardinal Mercier, Nikolai Lenin and myself...