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Word: englanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have accomplished little or nothing toward establishing human brotherhood. The foreign students have taken advantage of the opportunities, but they have not gone forth to preach any ringing gospel of peace and good will. They have returned to their respective fatherlands uninspired to lead the world. Their love of England has not been increased merely because they have benefited by the posthumous philanthropy of one of the most intensely English of all Englishmen. It is conceivable and probable that the knowledge gained at Oxford by some of the German Rhodes scholars is now being used against England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of a Dream. | 12/6/1916 | See Source »

...literary world knows him, was sent to the front with the "first hundred thousand." His bravery won him many promotions, and he finally received the rank of captain. He is now on a furlough and has been sent to this country by the British government to explain England's position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IAN HAY TO LECTURE ON WAR | 12/5/1916 | See Source »

Among casualties of the war is listed compulsory Greek at Cambridge--and it is a casualty that causes grief in England. The University Senate has been empowered to remit the study in the case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compulsory Greek Losing Foothold? | 12/1/1916 | See Source »

...addition to Overton and Wenz for first place, Brown of Williams, winner of the New England Intercollegiates, Thompson of Dartmouth, Preti of Maine, who ran second last year, and Captain Shotwell are all good runners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL FAVORED TO WIN LONG DISTANCE CONTEST | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

...interesting to note the geographical division of the honor men. Greater Boston, of course, leads with twenty-four men; New Hampshire has thirteen, far out of proportion to her total enrolment. Nearly all of the men come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORS TO THE FRESHMEN | 11/25/1916 | See Source »

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