Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret the U. S. position in what is more and more truly called the Western Hemisphere...
Haiti. One island: two republics. Republic of Haiti: blacks and French mulattos. Dominican Republic: Spanish Creoles, scrambled mulattos, Indians. Dominicans speak Spanish, Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...emphasis on Chinese culture which is one of the beneficial consequences of the recent nationalistic awakening among Chinese students. The work at Harvard will consist of courses in the Chinese language and literature, as well as in various aspects of Sinology studied through the medium of English or other European languages...
...Siple '15, Assistant to the Directors of the Fogg Art Museum, will give a series of eight lectures dealing with the great periods of European, painting, as part of the work of the University Extension course, it has just been announced. The course will be given at the Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
Tall & Short People. The smallest people in the world are the Negrillos of central Africa and the Aymaras of central South Africa. Almost as short are the Eskimos, Lapps and northern Siberians. They all lack one thing-abundant food. The tallest peoples live along the northern European coasts, along the Baltic, in western Asia, eastern Africa and in the temperate zones of North & South America. Their common possession is abundant food. However there are short peoples (Japanese, Mediterraneans, Central Americans, Fuegians, Malays and southern Asiatics) who have descended from taller stocks and who have an adequate food supply. Because they...