Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe is hampered by vital governmental problems from which the American States are practically free. In the first line comes the question of proportional representation...
...representative for every million of the 480,000,000 people on the Continent of Europe, France would have forty-one and Albania one. A combination of a few large States could always outvote the rest of the union. A genuine United States of Europe, founded on the successful American model, would presumably establish two legislative houses. If each nation should have one vote in the upper house, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain combined could always be outvoted by a group of States with an aggregate population of loss than 2,000,000. It would be the tall wagging...
...Resident Colleges at Harvard University" will be the subject of an address to be delivered tomorrow afternoon by President Lowell, at a meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
...association begins a three-day session this morning at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The Association of American Universities will meet jointly with the medical educators tomorrow, and in addition to President Lowell's address. Dr. Burton D. Myers, president of the medical association, will present a report. Other speakers on the same program will be Guy Stanford Ford, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, and J. C. Metcalf, dean of the University of Virginla's graduate schools...
President Lowell has often pointed out how different is the attitude of American society from that of English society toward the achievements of its young men. An English university man is quite as proud when his son or brother or friend gets a "first" (i.e. our summa cum laude) as when he rows in the boat or plays on the team. Now that our class is fifty years out, we have attained this catholicity. The Housing Plan and all that it implies will promote, we hope and believe, something of the same sort for our young men and their parents...