Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...
...interests in China are not so large as those of Great Britain, and they are to a larger extent philanthropie. Britain has been bullying China since 1842; for over three quarters of a century she has been grinding unequal rights of trade and property from the Chinese, and of late years forcing upon them the lucrative opium trade. An aggressive policy in China will merely reap for us a share of the odium of which Britain has sown the seeds. Our marines will be serving foreign interests as much...
...past ten days Coach Arnold Horween '21 has been running his men through hard workouts, even to the extent, in several instances, of testing plays out in short scrimmages, and he believes his squad to be in good enough condition now to go through a full length fray...
...tutorial phase is, of course, being emphasized to a greater extent," added Professor Ferguson, "but this was not a motive in the change. First of all, the department felt that students should get to know the field of their own special concentration better, and we found the old fields too broad to allow this. Also, under the new plan, men can choose more widely without paying a serious penalty for it on the general examination. The entire change was simply a corrective of the situation brought about by the institution of the general examination in History as a whole...