Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significance of this new organization lies in the fact that Copenhagen is the centre of Scandinavian learning. It means another great race has entered the field of international education in which the French and Anglo-Saxon have...
...Canadian Club at its Empire Day dinner Saturday evening at the Union, when officers for the year were elected. His address was devoted particularly to an explanation of the strategy of the campaign of the spring of 1918 on the western front, and he also emphasized the importance of Anglo-American co-operation in the future. Three members of the club who saw service overeas also spoke...
...fact that two thousand American officers and men are studying in English universities marks a noteworthy event in the history of the educational relationship between the two Anglo-Saxon countries. In France, also soldier-students of the American Army are in attendance at the time-honored institutions of learning. The effect of academic association with European culture on the part of these men should be exceedingly broadening. It is to be hoped that a spirit of fellowship with the French and English student can be brought overseas by the home-coming soldier, thus strengthening the ties which already bind...
...things that most charms the Anglo-Saxon, voyaging either in France or in French literature is the manner in which their types of character, tragic or droll, differ from ours. The great Revolution appeals to us not for its size but because of the dramatic quality of its executions and the fineness and intensity of the aristocrats thrown into relief by the unrestrained, but justly impassioned mob. The gayety of the modern Parisian is something so hard to define, so hard to put your hand on, that it is often a relief after our own boisterous humor...
...University welcomes their reopening not alone because the men selected will enjoy the privilege of reading at the centre of Anglo-Saxon culture, but as well for their association with the British in their daily life. Moreover, the long vacations will give them months on the Continent to see and study Europe during this unusual period of rest and reconstruction. Surely this will create international good fellowship as no formal balance of power or league could do. We hope the time is not far distant when the French universities will extend similar opportunities...