Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed time, those who have the call to teach descend from their citadel. ... An All Souls in every American university . . . might conceivably change the course of American civilization for the better...
...such criticism, as to lionizing, he is apparently impervious. He seems to be writing about actual friends of his, or people he would like to have for friends, with an inflection that first of all suits himself, however well it may also suit the public. When they call him a literary lackey he is artist enough not to mind. He snickers softly up his poplin cuff. The point has been missed, yet his work is good, it satisfies his Oriental sense of perfection and it sells enormously...
...Individual" and "The Nation and the Society of Nations", the eminent educator stressed not only the duties which the individual owes to the state, and to his fellow citizens, but also the duties of the United States owed to the rest of the world, which, he felt, call for this country's joining the World Court as the "irreducible minimum of our international obligations...
...titles, is Professor Howard's talk on Goethe on Shakespeare", to be given in Widener B in German 7. Goethe is considered the greatest of German poets, while Shakespeare's own position in English literature is hardly a mean one. But little stretching of the imagination is necessary to call these poets the two highest in world literature. To hear what the one has to say of the other could hardly be uninteresting...
...visiting committee was appointed to call upon all students who were ill and valuable assistance of many kinds was given to such...