Word: hues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate protests, it was modified to permit students admitted prior to last August to work out their tuition and keep. Nonquota students could continue to hold scholarships. From 1,500 to 2,500 foreign students were affected, chiefly in New York and California. Last week arose a great hue & cry, led by Dr. John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington (Washington, D. C.) and President Nicholas Murray Butler...
Even some educators have a persistent mistrust of academic work as a main college pursuit, as a sufficient and dominating undergraduate discipline. They are, perhaps not always consciously, afraid that "the native hue of resolution" will be "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Such an attitude in the world at large is unfortunate; among educators it is inexcusable...
...phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced by the real ruler of French Indo-China, white-whiskered, punctilious Governor General Pierre Pasquier...
...last Chinese "forbidden city" in the world, to Hue on the River of Perfumes, a youth of 19 returned from Paris to ascend his Throne last week...
When his father died in 1925 the French returned Bao Dai to Hue, crowned him in 1926, appointed a Regent and rushed him back to a town house in Paris where he played more ping pong, rounded out his magnificent collection of phonograph disks. Last week he disappeared with finality into the Forbidden City where (etiquet decrees) the Emperor of Annam must live invisible to his subjects, remote, mysterious, awesome...