Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with great anxiety yesterday's communication to the Crimson recommending the removal of the Sargent Murals in Widener Library. Such an act, we feel, would defeat its own purpose. We came to Harvard with wavering views on American foreign policy: but the repeated contemplation of these murals has given us so colorful a picture of the sacrifice by which we made the world safe for democracy that we are forever Mr. Sargent's debtors. The quality of the paintings and of the poetry beneath has been many times profaned, but we can scarcely imagine a finer reflection...
...Confining American foreign policy to the promotion of friendship among our neighbors in Latin-America, we believe, is the most constructive effort that the United States can make at this time," the committee said...
...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
...past month, various members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended...
With the added burden of the Refugee students, it is not too soon for Brooks House to begin planning for next year. Ideally the members of the Foreign Student Committee should be on hand several days before registration to help the newcomers find rooms and to advise them on such routine matters as where to eat, where to deposit their funds, and how to find their way about the Square. Since a majority of the foreign students take graduate courses, men in each of the graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans...