Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inducted to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he had been elected in 1923. Only two U. S. celebrities had entered that august company before him-Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The chair he received was that vacated in 1922 by the late Viscount James Bryce, English statesman-historian...
...upon Lord Bryce's life and works that Dr. Butler dwelt in his assumptive address, not forgetting many fine courtesies to France, ringing references to Franklin, Jefferson and La-Fayette, fitting eulogy of the French historian, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose writings on the U. S., the speaker implied, were quite as able as Bryce's, if not more so. "A nation," proclaimed Bryce's successor, in lofty conclusion, "must believe in itself as a moral as well as a political entity . . . eager pursuit . . . grave problems . . . powerful aids . . . national security and national satisfaction . . . lasting international peace...
...There is no one in America or in Europe," wrote the former Ambassador Bryce in a tribute to Professor Norton on the same occasion, "whom those who know what he has done and who have been privileged to enjoy his friendships will deem more worthy of a tribute of affectionate respect such as that which you are now paying to this reverend patriarch of American letters...
...Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of Jackson's time. Strange as this state may be to those who feel that the government must reflect the stupidity as well as the wishes of the masses, it would be more alarming if the extraordinary diffusion of higher education among the prosperous classes in America were not soon reflected...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow '59 (hon.), have read poems at these meetings. There have been addresses and orations by many prominent men among whom are Edward Eyerett 1811, Joseph Story 1798, Charles Sumner '30, Charles Francis Smith '56, James Bryce '67 (hon.), and Charles William Ellot...