Word: europeanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income. But it was in four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that he made his fortune. Like many another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered...
Director McConnell, a diminutive person of perpetual vigor, has put his players through 68 plays in six years. Some of his actors (Elmer Lehr, Russell Collins, Carl Benton Reid) have performed more than 650 times in some 50 roles, "an experience, incidentally," says Director McConnell, "which the trained European actor takes as a matter of course." At their Play House, alert Clevelanders see many a play, from Shakespeare to Shaw, invisible elsewhere...
...special feature in this year's plans will be the visit of a group of European Students to the United States during the summer. In being also to offer them hospitality the N.S.F.A. will be able to make a start toward repaying the hospitality which European students have extended to the American C.L.F. delegation both this year and last year...
...from Foreign Affairs, the Yale Review, and the American Historical Review, made by Professor A. C. Coolidge '87. Such titles as "Nationality and the New Europe" "The Break Up of the Hapsburg Empire", "Russia after Genoa and the Hague" show how extensive a view the book affords of the European field. There are also papers dealing specifically with the United States...
...author sees the origin of the American mind in the disintegration of European culture following the breakdown of the mediaeval ethos. Before leaving the mother country, the New England colonist, in the intensity of his Protestantism, had already rejected the historic outcome of Christianity, and to a large extent the ideals and modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet...