Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unlike many Presidential compaigns this one has peculiarly enlisted the efforts and interest of college men. Perhaps the fact the both candidates are graduates of well-known American college offers an explanation. A deeper reason for this active participation in the fight can be found in the character of the issues. The majority of compaigns in the past have presented tangible, easily understood questions about which the man in the street could easily formulate an opinion. Opposed to such is this year's most important issue, the foreign policy of the United States. Even lawyers and diplomats of international fame...
...other Eastern colleges where obvious influences explain the Hughes victories. Whether the nation's decision leases the Majority of Harvard men or the majority of Columbia men will actually make little difference. The important and most encouraging feature of the 1916 compaign has been the increased and active interest in American politics exhibited by the college men of the country...
...thing that was such a welcome portent of unfailing national generosity and vision and spirituality was the thing that this most excellent book describes, namely the going abroad of all these young Americans. It was looking far beyond personal interest to that world sympathy which must be the basis of all internationalism as it is of all democracy. It was, of course, utter fearlessness. It was of what Mr. Andrew speaks in his "introduction," the longing to have some share with the people of France in defending the ideals for which, as these feel, America has always stood...
...Boston's greatest civic possessions is the Lowell Institute. It was founded in 1836 by John Lowell, Jr., and has been giving free public instruction ever since. There is everything in these lectures to interest Harvard students. President Lowell is the trustee, and many of the professors of the University are speakers...
...series to be called the "Harvard Theological Studies," of which the first is printed as an extra number of the Harvard Theological Review, the whole series to be edited by George F. Moore, Kirsop Lake and James H. Ropes for the Faculty of Divinity. The point of interest concerning the series is that it revealed by its prospectus. As a result of the war, many European journals of research have been forced to suspend publication, and in further consequence the editors of the Harvard Theological Review, seeking material for their issues, have had much valuable matter spontaneously offered to them...