Word: gasset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crisis took place in 1852, and has since become the incident in its history to which most Pierian members point with the greatest pride, both in the tenacity of the institution and the individual perseverance of Mr. Henry Gasset of the Class...
...this year that the Sodality found itself with a staggering membership of one--Mr. Henry Gasset. Gasset, reluctant to go down in history as the last of the tribe, elected himself President of the organization, appointed himself as all the other officers, kept minutes of all his meetings with himself, rehearsed with himself with himself as the official conductor, and after his rehearsing, toasted himself with liquor bought with the dues which he paid to himself...
...Gasset's iron will, and his ability to get along with himself paid off, for soon musicians were flocking to Pierian, and the organization was saved...
Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
...realistic' than that." But readers who could remember back before Hitler, before the Depression, recognized that much of FORTUNE'S brave new Europe was in a high old tradition, had been dreamed again & again by Europeans themselves. A host of great Europeans, from Kant to Ortega y Gasset, had agreed that in unity lay the only European future that made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval - in principle...