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George Bernard Shaw is fond of saying that he was born about 50 years ahead of his time. In London last week he told newsmen of the Institute of Journalism that their minds function far behind their time. Their backwardness of comprehension he called "time lag." Just as Great Britain long failed to recognize the United States as a permanent Republic and George Washington as anything but "one of the blackest scoundrels that ever existed," so today "the press has not yet recognized that the [Russian] revolution has taken place," said...
...fundamental ideas embodied in this book are those concerning the relation of art and the machine, the derivation of form from function, and the importance of sincerity as an architectural virtue. Wright believes that the machine, properly utilized, is not destructive of the fine individualistic qualities essential to art. Significant architecture must constitute the solution of a problem--and that problem arises primarily from the purpose or function which a structure is called upon to fulfill. Style cannot be affected, nor can the organic simplicity which Wright regards as requisite to characteristic modernism. "Simplicity and style both are consequences, never...
...William James Lecturer on philosophy will deliver the tenth lecture of his series on "The Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The subject of today's lecture which will be the last of the series, will be "Art and Morals; the Function of Art." The lecture is open to the public...
...with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function of marriage, that love activity benefits husband and wife mentally and physically, that wives should be as forward in the play as husbands...
...foster a more general but still intimate contact between students and faculty that the social and intellectual phases of college life may be more harmoniously blended. In these spheres little place is left for the fraternity. On the more tangible side, the "system" will necessarily deprive them of their function as eating houses. What will then be the result...