Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trite complaint that the undergraduate takes his extra curricular activities more seriously than his studies. But he does this because his homelly latent philosophy is essentially a sporting philosophy, the good old Anglo-Saxon conviction that life is essentially a game whose significance lies in terms of winning or losing. The passion of the American undergraduate for intercollegiate athletics is merely a symbol of a general interpretation for all the activities that come to his attention. If he is interested in politics, it is in election campaigns. In the contests of parties and personalities. His parades and cheering...
There is a position vacant in the Anglo-Chinese College at Foochow, China, for a teacher of Physics and geology next year. The salary is adequate for comfortable living, but the travelling expenses out and back are not paid. This college does not consist entirely of Chinese, for there is a foreign community there of nearly four hundred. Those who have gone out there report the life varied and interesting, and not at all in accord with the weird ideas that are sometimes prevalent in regard to conditions in the East. Immediate application must be sent in as the appointment...
...famous Greek archaeologist, who had made valuable discoveries of classic temples and statues. The speaker described the work of Helmholz, the famous theorist in vibration of sound and light, and came in personal contact with the two greatest lecturers of that day, Mommsen and Grimm. Zupitza, the Anglo-Saxon and Gothic scholar, was one of his earliest teachers. In Strassburg and Heidelberg he came under the direct influence of such men as Ten Brink and Kuno Fischer...
Boston University offers on Saturdays and late in the afternoons of other days courses in Anglo-Saxon, English, French, German, Italian, Sanskrit, Education, Drama, Music, and Hygiene...
Henry Adams '58.--Professor of History and author of many magazine articles and other works. He was a professor in the University from 1870 to 1877, and for the following six years edited the North American Review. Some of his works are: "Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law," "Documents Relating to New England Federalism," and "The History of Jefferson's and Madison's Administrations...