Word: globe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great opportunity of the talking moving picture remains, however, the spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
...cloister as the best milieu for academic life were exhausted some centuries ago; the modern man of letters must be actruly modern man, and if for no other reason than that of keeping in communication with the progress of men similarly engaged on the other side of the globe, he cannot live in monastic seclusion. As hostile to the American mind, trained in Hoover individualism, as clerical support is a public system that might be scented with State Socialism. Beside private philanthropy, there is no other means in this country for the man born with the ivory tower mind...
...Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...Monday, however, and the Vagabond can then promise that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while his physical feet will probably touch no soil more remote than Cape Cod for many months to come, he will be fit to match tales with the most hardened globe-trotter and at the expense of far less energy...
Besides the football announcements there will be several feature talks by outside speakers. Dave Eagan, sports writer and boxing critic of the Boston Globe will talk on boxing. J. L. Knox, coach of the Second University team is to explain the new rule changes as they will go into effect next season. Arthur Sampson, head football coach at Tufts and Stanley Woodward, sports writer for the Boston Herald are also to speak. The meeting is the second of its kind which has been held in preparation for the coming conditioning season...