 | Charles William Eliot - Landscape architecture - 1902 - 928 pages
...beneficent expenditure of public money, or one more productive of genuine well-being and healthy happiness. The last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth have seen three great securities taken for the welfare, through many generations, of the Boston group... | |
 | Elie Faure - 1913 - 84 pages
...sun themselves against the wall of Saint-SauVeur, — all can remember having seen frequently — in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the present one, a singular old man. Almost all knew his name, very few had heard his voice. In the morning... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - Government publications - 1914 - 1390 pages
...imagination, and moral qualities of a high order. The transformation wrought in business ethics in the last years of the nineteenth century, and the first years of the twentieth, has proved to be one of the great moral and humanitarian movements of modern times — and the end... | |
 | University of the State of New York - College presidents - 1914 - 132 pages
...imagination, and moral qualities of a high order. The transformation wrought in business ethics in the last years of the nineteenth century, and the first years of the twentieth, has proved to be one of the great moral and humanitarian movements of modern times — and the end... | |
 | TALBOT BAULKNER HAMLIN - 1921 - 444 pages
...ever-increasing number of Americans. In addition, it must be remembered that the thought of the closing years of the Nineteenth Century and the first years of the Twentieth Century was dominated by a strongly international cast. International congresses of all kinds grew... | |
 | Herbert Bates - English literature - 1918 - 640 pages
...this merit? Compare Swinburne with Shelley and Arnold with Wordsworth. CHAPTER XIII RECENT FICTION IN the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth there has been written a great Faults and deal of fiction. Yet little of it has been Merits great fiction.... | |
 | Music Teachers National Association - 1921 - 274 pages
...methods still in use. Then came that wonderful set of gifted young artists who were the virtuosi of the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth. They were pupils of Liszt, receiving their pianistic training principally at Weimar, under the tutelage... | |
 | Percy A. Scholes - Composers - 1923 - 160 pages
...some very great works, and it was their works which, when they began to be performed in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth, really proved to British people that Russia was to be looked upon as an important musical country.... | |
 | Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs - Theater - 1924 - 490 pages
...Clyde Fitch, George Ade, and Charles Hoyt — which often seems the best of the American theatre in the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth — and you may wonder if satire is not the instinctive medium for our playwrights. The expressionistic... | |
 | Herbert Henry Gowen - Asia - 1926 - 504 pages
...India. We shall have more to say in a later chapter as to Persia's connection with the war. During the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth the history of Asiatic Turkey is rather the story of subjugated peoples living within the bounds of... | |
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This pattern of things continued into the last years of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth... 
