Word: cosmopolitans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idyllic to think that Harvard would ever offer comprehensive course offerings on the West. But Harvard offers courses in the history of the South, colonial history, and oceanic history. While Western history may not be considered cosmopolitan in academic circles, the University should transcend its usual provincialism and provide at least one course in the history of the Western Movement...
...Which also publishes Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Bride and Home, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Sports Afield, Motor Boating, American Druggist and Motor...
...Association, St. Paul's Society, the Memorial Society, Debating Club, Oracle, Round Table, Dramatic Club, Symposium, Hasty Pudding--and became captain of the water polo team, Ibis of the Lampoon, Editor of the Monthly, manager of the Banjo, Glee, Guitar and Mandolin Clubs, and President of the Western and Cosmopolitan Clubs...
...great-greatgrandfather on the maternal side migrated from Ireland in the early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics at Yale ('43); and, after World War II service as an artillery captain (Bronze Star, Croix de guerre with silver...
Calling for the adoption of a curriculum more cosmopolitan in scope than at present, Hunt urged that American schools expose their students to the numerous ideologies, particularly Marxism, which have assumed significance in the modern world...