Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the generously and interest of the editors of Time, this 29-page collection of articles giving a factual background for the present. European and Asiatic conflicts is made available to Harvard undergraduates and faculty...
Ralph Hinchman Cutler Jr., returning as a senior to Harvard after a summer abroad, wrote in the Crimson: "In the present European war there is only one thing at stake: the supremacy and preponderance of the British Empire. The war appears to be merely a clash of rival imperialisms...
...exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
...started the show in 1932 as a memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought the show to national importance. Overjoyed was she in 1937 when a similar exhibition of U. S. ceramic art by European invitation toured Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and England, ceramic centres all, and won high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists who enter the show are commercial designers, that the interest the show has inspired has spurred better design in mass production...
Standing opposite these sentiments are three coldly arresting facts. First: here is the final opportunity to call a stop before European civilization lurches to perdition. Second: there seem to be reasons for hoping that peace is not an impossibility at this juncture. Three: America's best chance for peace lies in an immediate end of the war. In the light of these facts, it is clear that the President is almost under an obligation to exert every office he possesses to bring about such a peace...