Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted the Porter resolution requesting the President to negotiate a treaty between the U. S. and China, regardless of the concert of European powers...
...opportunity to study and write the American professor today is at a disadvantage as compared with his European colleague. If he conducts a course his class meetings are more frequent. Whether he lectures or tutors, his academic year runs to something like nine months, while in Europe it is six or seven. Our college year is too firmly fixed to be curtailed; and few would desired to shorten it if the change meant that the college plant and the college students would be unused and idle longer than they are now. If our teachers are to do their share...
...Because the Jew has a family loyalty, and a race loyalty, but no national loyalty he is not affected by the war situation in the manner of a European type. The Jew, a realist, sees the economic waste of war, and desires peace in which to make his competitive economic superiority manifest. The European so completely lacks the rational disinclination of the Jew to fight that he applies to it the term "cowardice,"* and does not recognize it as a virtue. Thus many Jews died during the War, but many more were able to distance competitors in business whose commercial...
...Finally the Jew's religion is simplified by being founded on the Old Testament to the exclusion of the New. The Jew bargains and haggles, remembering that the God of the Old Testament set the example of higgling with Abraham. The commercial efficiency of the European is lowered by the fact that his New Testament religion idealizes Christ, Who countenanced the very practical art of higgling so little that He drove the money-changers out of the Temple...
...Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian-critic, Danish Jew, "Dean of European culture"; following an intestinal operation, in Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized history...