Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again Oxford invades Cambridge, this time to compete upon the platform instead of the track, where the Englishmen were badly beaten last spring. Debating Oxford is not longer the novelty in debating circles that it was, not many years ago, for an American team...
...other spectacle or sporting contest. This debate, fought out on territory friendly to the Americans, proved to be their first victory over the Oxonians. Again in 1923 the Bates team won, and in 1924 two Bates men and one Englishman defeated a team composed of two Englishmen and one American...
...against such men as these that the University team will be forced to show its mettle on October 16. In the 1923 Oxford-Harvard debate which the Englishmen won by so large a margin the English team showed an informality of delivery which was quite foreign to the Americans, and a wit which crackled and sparkled to the discomfiture of the Americans. "In the Garden of Eden all animals were given tails, but men were left to form their own conclusions. Our chief function in coming to America is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard...
...Gathering. Crossing the boundaries of their fatherlands, legislators last week made their way towards Washington. Ex-Chancellor Josef Wirth, of Germany, lately resigned from his party (TIME, Sept. 7, Germany), was among the first arrivals. Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, Italians, Swiss, Rumanians, Austrians, Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Serbs, Swedes, Poles, Irish, Magyars, Belgians, Bulgarians, Canadians, Egyptians, Finns, Dutchmen, Norwegians, Danes were on their...
Little did the contents itself remind him of that old-time miscellany of reprints from the works of Englishmen. In the new magazine his rheumy eyes encountered first, an article by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled Religion and Life, Moral Autonomy or Downfall. It was a searching article, highly civilized, passionately logical, but little to the old man's ribald taste. He skipped it to peruse the first installment of Christopher MORLEY'S Thunder on the Left...