Word: esperanto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burden of banks, land owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski had finished a motion was proposed to substitute orations in Esperanto, which nobody could understand for any further speeches in Russian...
...Stoner Jr. (Mrs. Charles P. de Bruche), aged 22, was raised by her mother to be a prodigy. She "has made impromptu speeches in public since the age of four." She has written for publication since the age of five. Her books include Patrino Anserino (Mother Goose in Esperanto, written at the age of six), animal stories, children's histories, volumes of fact-jingles. The mother of Mrs. de Bruche is Mrs. James B. Stoner of Norfolk, Va., "founder of the Natural Education System." Mrs. Stoner attributes the .brilliance of her daughter in no small part to the fact...
...quite true that the people of Hungary need not expect to encounter many Esperantists at Harvard or in North America in general. Are we quite sure that the Hungarians are taking up Esperanto with that expectation? Possibly they may be using Esperanto as an introductory language instead of Latin. Will they find many speakers of Latin at Harvard? Perhaps they wish to enter into relations with their neighbors of Chekoslovakia, Poland, Ukrainia, Russia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Greece, not to mention the Baltic and Levantine nations. Why learn English, French, and German? Esperanto is sufficiently spread throughout Eurasia...
...League of Nations Esperanto meets two opponents, English and French. The League Assembly has repeatedly manifested its support of the auxiliary language: ordered its secretarial to compile statistics and facts about it; refused the report of its committee "On Intellectual Cooperation" where French influence had exerted pressure against Esperanto; sustained Esperanto officially scarcely a month ago by urging "that the states, members of the League, agree to give Esperanto the treatment and rates of a 'clear' language in telegraphic and radio-telegraphic relations, as a practical auxiliary language of international communications side by side with the national languages used...
There is no attempt being made to boom Esperanto as a college study in America, and for the present no such attempt is contemplated. It would, however, pay every Harvard student to learn enough Esperanto for conversation and letter writing. In addition to his smattering or reading knowledge of French, German, Russian, or Japanese. Norman W. Frost, '08. E. E. A. delegito, por Cambridge...