Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politics. This unique annual event has attracted attention for ihe quality of the foreign lecturers who addressed it, the prominence of the experts who conducted its special Round Table conferences, the timeliness of the subjects discussed. Its first session was dignified by the venerable figure of the late Lord Bryce, and it has been rumored that the preliminaries to the Washington Arms Conference of 1921 were conducted in Dr. Garfield's study. The Institute, financially supported by Bernard M. Baruch, Manhattan financier, ensured the cordial cooperation of the Department of State, functioned as a summer-school for diplomats, publicists, educators...
...Institute has not yet announced its complete schedule. Standing ambitiously in the midst of current politics, it was inevitable that it should be made the vehicle for much propaganda, beyond the power of Dr. Garfield to control. Despite the high prestige of some of its speakers, such as Lord Bryce, Tommaso Tittoni and Lord Birkenhead, it has not been immune from such unabashed propagandists as Count Harry Kessler (German). Further, the Institute has been very much under the influence of League of Nations proselytizers in this country. The report is discouraging that the British representatives this year are again...
Winston Churchill's novel, "The Crisis," and Owen Wister's story, "The Virginian," were two other of the ten favorite books, and among the authors who received many votes were Jack London, whose "Call of the Wild" appeared to be the favorite among his novels; Lord Bryce, with "Modern Democracies," Thomas Hardy, with "The Dynasts," William Allen White, who owed his place to the vogue of his tale of "A Certain Rich Man," Louis Hemon, with his Canadian story, "Maria Chapdelaine," Ernest Poole, May Sinclair, Hamlin Garland, Zona Gale, and Rabindranath Tagore...
...feel that, although my master in former years-James Bryce- was certainly the best that any man could have, I shall have to spend a certain time here before I can really graduate and take my degree. But I hope that the American press, who will be my examiners, whether I like it or not, will not be too hard, and I am encouraged by the fact that never, I believe, in the history of the two countries have their relations been so friendly and cordial as now. Indeed, it seems to me that my chief duty will...
...instructors?the late James Viscount Bryce; Tomass'o Tittoni, former Premier of Italy; Count Teleki, former Premier of Hungary; Frank W. Taussig, Harvardeconomist; A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard President; Michael I. Pupin, inventor; John H. Latane, Johns Hopkins Dean; the Earl of Birkenhead (F. E. Smith...