Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what a change!" he says. "A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us,--call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country...
...Student Friendship in meeting this situation is not to be disparaged; in restoring some measure of comfort and opportunity to students in war-impoverished sections of Europe, the Fund accomplished a much-needed service. That situation has now subsided, and it remains to be learned what other needs have arisen to warrant the perpetuation of the Student Friendship Fund...
...proper service to business men, is to have them expertly catalogued and conducted by a staff of specialists. The business man who wants library service usually wants just one thing; namely, quick, immediate supply of up-to-the-minute facts, comment and statistics upon practical problems that have arisen within his business. In the vast modern outpouring of trade journals, Government reports, research bulletins, and general magazine and newspaper articles, no ordinary library staff can possibly be expected to find its way round. Only expert special librarians can keep the material properly catalogued, filed and ready for quick reference. Some...
...able chief editorial writer of the New York World, who had recently talked with President Coolidge, said: "What can be the mentality of a Secretary of State who will sponsor such balderdash as this memorandum? Here we are in the midst of the most delicate international crisis that has arisen since the War, and we find the Secretary of State engaged in slanderous insinuation against a friendly government. Could anything be meaner? . . . This is a crime against the peace of the world. This is a crime against the honor of the United States...
...distinguished visiting educators of last week were hoping to hear things of good repute about the ministry, they were partially mistaken: "The intellectual level of the ministry of our American churches is pathetically low. Recent controversies could hardly have arisen had our pulpits beer filled with men abreast of current thought and seriously teaching then people. The number of college professors and leaders in the professions who show no interest ir the Church is an alarming sign of the inability of our clergy to grip the minds and stir the imaginations of many of our educated people. A rift between...