Word: british
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rank and file of Harvard students can hardly be expected to concur with this view and suspicion has already been aroused against what seems to be an artificially imposed British cast to the plans for Lowell House. The difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined...
...British newspapers headlined the incident. The father of Improper Geoffrey wrote to St. James's Palace, asking if the Prince had really been annoyed by the request. Result: a two-page autograph letter for Improper Geoffrey, marked "Strictly Private, Not for Publication," and Geoffrey's hasty reinstatement in the school...
...plot of the piece concerns the momentary romantic lapse of a British Cabinet Minister, Mr. Maddock, who has so closely applied himself to his career that he has forgotten how to dream. His own marriage and his elder daughter's were arranged solely for his political advantage...
Speaking before a luncheon gathering at the Liberal Club, yesterday; H. M. Watkins, British Laborite, who is traveling in the United States under a Rockefeller Fellowship, said that the outstanding feature of American industry, as seen by an Englishman, is the willingness of operators to discard out of date machinery. He predicted that within a few generations American prosperity would fall into decline...
...Watkins, British Laborite, who has been travelling under a Rockefeller Fellowship, will lead a discussion at the Liberal Club at 1.30 o'clock today...