Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards, but on Haile Selassie's own Ethiopian Government passports...
There are many, not only in the European despotisms but here as well, who do not hold that view, who think, to put it bluntly, that the politicians should run the professors or that the professors should run the politicians. Thus there are those who would reduce the universities to the position of bureaus in the ministry of propaganda and there are those who would invite them to become the advisers of politicians, the directors and planners of national policy...
...Langer to the Coolidge professorship of History only gives him an expected promotion and an impressive title, he can dispense with congratulations. Rather, they should go to the Coolidge Chair whose reputation will be enhanced from its association with a man who is rapidly becoming the Napoleon of modern European historians and to President Conant who has effectively stilled the persistent rumors that other colleges are trying to bribe Mr. Langer away from Cambridge...
Engineering training upon the North American Continent first took root in institutions that were not connected with established universities and that were patterned after Continental European example with recognition of the fact that these European institutions are superimposed upon a very different system of secondary education. These polytechnica or institutes of technology and their younger relatives, the undergraduate schools of engineering, nevertheless have flourished and have served the country well in advancing its frontiers of industry. What their students have lacked in educational background these institutions have tried to fill by the introduction of general studies normal to the college...
...matches. In 1924 he came to the attention of the late Julius Rosenwald, who was so impressed that he spent $11,000 to send Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World Champion Jose Capablanca to win the masters' tournament at Margate, England. Last month he quit his accountant's job in Manhattan to enter the national tournament...