Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard is not the oldest New World university. The University of Mexico City was founded in 1553, while the institution in Cuzco, Peru, dates from 1598. On the other hand, Harvard outdates many European universities-- Bonn (1818), Gottingen (1737), London (1836), and Breslau...
...Tower. But the students who strolled indifferently about the court did seem most cold and concerned only with their gentlemanly ego. The Vagabond wondered whether he dare go in-for he's a sensitive soul and ill-versed in indifference. But he was asked to the exhibition of modern European art-and the Vagabond does love art very much. But alas...
Admiral Sims, who served as Commander of American Naval Operations in European waters during the late war, will dine at Leverett and probably comment on some aspects of the current naval policy on Tuesday evening, November...
...intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which the emotional aspects of life within the organization were more vividly and completely...
...ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered irrelevant, where bewildering and unprecedented problems arose and where...