Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has recently appointed the following Harvard professors as its representatives at coming meetings of European societies of learning: at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the "Reconstitution de Academic des Sciences, Agriculture, Arts et Belles-Lettres d'Aix," at Aix-en Provence in April, Professor E. H. Hall, of the Physics Department; at the "Congress International des Orientalistes," at Copenhagen in August, Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Indic Philology, and Professor G. F. Moore, of the Semitic Department at the Third International Congress, for the History of Religions...
...devoted to their studies; and there is not the superabundant interest in outsider things that there is at Harvard. At Berlin this condition is more apparent then at other universities, for at Bonn, Heidelberg and the other provincial universities there is more esprit de corps. At none of the European universities is there any development of athletics corresponding to ours. Compulsory service in the army supplies in part the need of physical training, but the absence of athletics makes student life lack variety. The Germans work harder in their courses, and with the felling that these are a definite part...
...described as of the best, not only in general, but also as regards the more definite points of diplomatic controversy. The practical value of the Monroe Doctrine as hitherto applied and the desirability of United States control in Panama are now well recognized in France; and throughout the tangled European complications of the past decade France and the United States, to their mutual advantage, have countenanced and supported each other. M. Tardieu closed with the statement that the purpose of his lectures was to indicate the size and scope of the great part now being played by France...
...Andre Tardieu delivered the sixth of his Hyde lectures in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon on the subject of "Le Bilan des Alliances." The lecturer treated in turn the three great European alliances of the present...
...closing, M. Tardieu took up the famous Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, and the various views with regard to its present efficacy. He characterized it as affording a mere modus vivendi between Italy and Austria, and as having ceased to serve Germany as an instrument for dominating European affairs...