Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report of an eye witness is always interesting, and when the event is the European war, and the witness a trained journalist like Dallas D. L. McGrew '03, of the Boston Journal, the interest is multiplied tenfold. In the current number of the Illustrated, Mr. McGrew tells what the American Ambulance is doing and can do in its service on the French battle-front. His comment on the attitude of the Frenchmen to the United States is straight to the point. "France feels . . . . that she is fighting for the preservation of the principles of liberty and the rights...
...whole, however, the Illustrated has produced a good number, the best feature of which is the article on American Ambulances by D. D. L. McGrew...
...William Roscoe Thayer '81, former editor of the Graduates' Magazine, will address a meeting of the Diplomatic Club in the North Tower of Memorial Hall this evening at 6.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "John Hay's Contributions to American Diplomacy." Mr. Thayer recently published a two volume life of John Hay. He has also contributed the "Life and Times of Cavour" to the field of diplomatic history...
...recent years, however, there has been some flow in the opposite direction. Not only have many Oriental students come to American universities, especially for technical education, but European students have also visited our shores in greater numbers. One important effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student...
Unfortunately, however, the American student himself offers a great obstacle by his attitude toward every man who speaks English with the semblance of an accent. With one exception, notably in connection with the Cosmopolitan Club, undergraduates adopt a supercilious or at best thoughtless attitude of aloofness toward foreigners. They often do not realize that men who cross the seas to study in a strange country are usually more filled with enthusiasms, ideas, and ideals than many of the uninteresting and uninterested men who attend college because it is the thing...