Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman learns with astonishment that in the United States the college graduate is attracted mainly by business and remunerative professions, while comparatively few enter polities. In England the case is exactly contrary; there Oxford and Cambridge, regarding public service a high and universal duty, recruits the House' of Commons from their-graduate ranks, Englishmen, then, appraise the situation here as anomalous...
...predictions of experts. There were many reasons for this. In the first place, they were members, of a picked team from Great Britain's two most ancient and best-known universities, selected to compete against Cornell's best. Cross-country and distance running, moreover, is par excellence the Englishman's specialty. We excel in the dashes, hurdles and field events--contests in which a high degree of nervous energy is required for a short period of time. The Britisher, on the other hand, has usually excelled in events which require stamina, endurance and long training. Of such events cross-country...
...musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show progresses. "The Eternal Triangle,--From Two Angles," gives us an uproariously funny picture of "How the American Imagines it Happens in England," and "How the Englishman Imagines it Happens in America"; John Hastings Turner and James Montgomery Flagg are responsible for the respective Angles. A merry satire on the Twentieth Century child, who in the sophistication of his or her ten or twelve years of age plays the races, shoots craps and drinks cocktails, is offered...
...present day students in the University understand the extent or the character of the service rendered to the University by John Harvard. This Englishman set sail for Massachusetts in 1637, after he had gained the titles of "Bachelor" and "Master" in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. At once he settled near Boston in a district known at that time as Charlestowne and immediately became so interested in the college which had been established at Newtowne in the previous year by order of the General Court that he donated half of his estate, $3900, a large sum in those days...
...popular American novelist once remarked: "A Frenchman can understand a joke if it's nasty; an Italian if it's cruel; an Englishman if it's explained to him; and a German if it's on somebody else; but an American is the only man on earth who can understand a joke on himself. The American sense of humor is a bubble on the cup of courage." Isn't there a Japanese sense of humor...