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...Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D. Lord Cramer, when asked to suggest someone to succeed him as viceroy of Egypt said that the only man who could be his successor was not an Englishman but an American--Leonard Wood...
...writer of ""Recapitulation," a semi-editorial, has hit the point accurately; perhaps it might be well to add in postscript that a visiting Englishman or Irishman wouldn't be true to type without the usual generalizations about American commercialism...
...Harold J. Laski, whose radical opinions have given him a good deal of publicity, is, it might be explained, a young Englishman who has served the University during the past two or three years as a lecturer on history and a tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics. During the current year he is giving lectures at Yale also. The brilliancy of his intellect and his capacity as a teacher are generally recognized, but his views on social and political topics run far afield from those which have usually been accounted orthodox, and his recent utterances...
...Englishman to Lecture on Hygiene...
...with the hospitality of the British. He continued, "When the Unit first began its work there was a sort of indefinable coolness between the British and Americans, but the former soon found that the dollar mark was not an American's criterion of living; the latter learned that every Englishman did not wear a monocle. In a short time the officers of the Unit were thoroughly at home in a British mess...