Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, what is most desirable in the House is that a proper balance of power be maintained between the two different factions. Nothing is more deadening than constant agreement, and opposition only ensures a thorough consideration of all proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...
...Griffith, associate professor of Political Science in the School of Citizenship of Syracuse University, will speak at the meeting of foreign and American students at Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 8.30 o'clock...
...promoting the social mingling of foreign and American students, the International Council is attempting to sound out the attitude of students at Harvard in respect to the possible future establishment of an International House here. It is hoped that a center for social activities of foreign students can thus be realized. A step in this direction was made when the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet turned over to the International Council the use of the Shepard Memorial room in the Phillips Brooks House...
...council recently received a tabulation of statistics concerning the numbers of foreign students attending American colleges. More than 10,000 students, from 101 countries and dependencies, are studying in American institutions of higher learning. If preparatory and high schools were included in the survey, the total number would exceed...
...glamour which attended the naval festivities yesterday in Portsmouth has undoubtedly struck a note of wonder in the minds of the American public. For, to the tune of celebrating salutes, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams had the honor of christening a new giant submarine to be added to the nation's fleet. Marking one more step in the government's policy of defence, the occasion at once assumed national importance...