Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategic value in giving an opportunity for a popular expression of peace sentiment. In going the rounds from state to state it would have provided over a period of years a new and efficient means of counteracting some of the powerful forces leading to intervention in a very possible European war. It is disgraceful reflection upon the pretended undergraduate interest in peace that there is no peace society or committee which could have seen to it that scores of students and their families wrote their Congressmen to support the amendment...
...charge of the Dartmouth College ski team it had few real challengers in the U. S. But last year Coach Schniebs resigned, and a 25-year-old Swiss named Walter Prager was imported to succeed him. Skimeister Prager's recommendations consisted of a trunkful of important European skiing-championship awards, including the downhill world championship (1933). He took over Dartmouth's winter activities quietly, confident he could do as good a job as his predecessor. Last week Coach Prager was sure enough of himself to divide his ski squad into two six-man teams to meet two important...
...EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL - Lewis Henry Morgan-Rochester Historical So- ciety...
Although Morgan has been the subject of many a scientific memoir, U. S. readers got their first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A good introduction, it traces the grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also...
Morgan's European Travel Journal gives a better picture of the man than of his achievements or his professional standing. But it suggests the rich observations that may remain in the 18,000 unpublished pages of Morgan's writing, now packed away in the library of the University of Rochester...