Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is the first time in the history of the world that all the Protestant denominations are to get together," he explained before sailing. "It is the vanguard, in my opinion, of a great movement, a world-embracing gesture of the true spirit and faith to bind all nations and all religions. That there is a time coming when all Christian religions will be consolidated, I have not the least doubt...
...Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions...
Many British imperialists are striving to bind together the mother country and the colonies, for the dependence of England upon her colonial trade would make her position precarious if hostility should drive apart the different branches of the Empire. Imperial conferences, reciprocal tariffs, and a myriad of unofficial agencies are at work for the unity of the Empire. And yet an ineluctable current towards separation is rendering dubious the future. England has long since surrendered the right to any but nominal interference with the concerns of the dominions. In conflicts of commercial interests, the home country has ceded instead...
...come more specifically to a treatment of the Harvard Law School, however, we find a curious and astounding mixture of races and colors that defies amalgamation. The only unifying influence is the study of Law; outside of the classroom and the library there is no common interest to bind the students together. Nearly all colleges place their stamp upon their graduates; the men come here already hardened to the mould, and there is no change in them through the three-year course except that wrought by nature...
...Senior year, and the Dean's List principle of special privileges for men with high scholastic records, are the features of the University system. But the Dartmouth plan goes further than anything yet instituted at the University in freeing honor students from the hampering restrictions that bind other undergraduates, and in this respect it sets a precedent which has long stood as the ultimate goal of the tutorial system here...