Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author of "Techniques and Civilization" and "The Culture of Cities," who is at Harvard for a three week stay while he gives six lectures on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture" believes that the United States should actively aid France and England in order to halt "the demonic spread of Fascism, that may yet blot out our civilization...
Furthermore, the most important questions of the poll are not vulnerable to the charge of partiality. Whether students favor our entrance into the war now or if England and France are losing, whether they favor an immediate peace conference, prohibition of loans and credits to belligerents, and denial of protection to U. S. citizens on belligerent ships are all things worth knowing. The poll therefore has a positive value which the Crimson completely neglects. Executive Committee, Harvard Student Union...
Japan, Victorian England, and Harlem is a wild combination in any man's way of thinking. But such a combination conceived by Messrs. Todd, Short, and Robinson, and put on as "The Hot Mikado" is an all-time high in sacrilegious lunacy. Gilbert and Sullivan worshippers would probably rather hear a Goodman rendition of Beethoven's Ninth than their beloved "Mikado" slapped into the groove by a lot of Darktown strutters. But like so many iconoclasts, Michael Todd seems to be getting away with his Great Idea and packing the houses as royally as any D'Oyly Carte company ever...
...German raiders she had outlived all but one.* She had cruised 64,000 miles, through every ocean and most of the British patrols of the world. Not once had she touched port nor spoken another German raider. Her victims totaled 135,000 tons. According to plan, she had mined England's chiel colonial ports, including Singapore. And until one month before her miraculous return the British Admiralty did not even possess a description...
Next week Harvard is scheduled to meet Mt. Holyoke on the subject "Government Censorship and Control of Communications." This will be a New England hookup over station WAAB, as was the St. John's debate...