Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...
President A. Lawrence Lowell has formally accepted the chairmanship of the Board of Judges who are to determine the winner of the interscholastic essay contest conducted every year by the Brooks-Bryce Foundation of New York City, among students of secondary schools...
...Bryce First Lectured...
...first Godkin lectures were delivered in 1904 by the Right Honorable James Bryce, and these lectures served as a basis for his "Modern Democracies" President Eliot delivered the lectures in 1907-08, and among subsequent Godkin lecturers were Professor Josef Redlich, formerly of the University of Vienna, now on the staff of the Harvard Law School, and Leon Dupriez of Louvain University, Belgium...
...lectures. The Lowell lectures have received more public notice because of their wider field and greater frequency but the Godkin series given every April on "The Essentials of Free Government and the duties of the Citizen" or some phase of that subject has maintained the standard established by Lord Bryce, its first lecturer, and continued by such men as President Eliot. Mr. Hibben, distinguished not only as President of Princeton University but also for his scholarly work in philosophy, and more particularly the philosophy of the state, is a happy choice to give the lectures...