Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music I 75 25% 8% 20% 90% 91% French F 74 15% 1% 14% 83% 61% French D 72 2% 2% 70% 70% Physics B 69 7% 1% 7% 93% 86% Physics C 57 15% 15% 95% 90% French 6 55 41% 23% 23% 84% 66% Latin B 53 21% 2% 99% 50% French A 53 2% 2% 14% 98% 80% Phil. B 51 30% 20% 15% 88% 66% German E 50 13% 10% 5% 75% 75% Physics F 34 11% 4% 7% 99% 99% Sec. A 32 36% 20% 12% 79% 53% Physics...
Between the United States and South America lies a wider gulf than can be bridged merely by diplomatic "good neighbor" overtures. Long have we valued Latin imports and found their mines and plantations a profitable spot for investments. But our interest has progressed little beyond the clink of finance. Our schools and colleges have been too concerned with falling Romes and Virgin Queens to feed upon the rich historical and cultural life of our neighbors...
...ignore this first spark of interest would be damaging to Latin American relations so vital in an era of Nazi economic penetration. America's "hands across the seas" must be supplemented by American minds. By offering to establish an institute at Harvard, the Brazilian government is making a step, important not only in itself, but as a custom that may find favor with the rest of South America. It has wisely offered to bear most of the financial burden, leaving to Harvard the sole responsibility of providing a few rooms for the library and for lectures. The hand is extended...
Arthur R. Reis, Jr., Princeton '39, declared in summing up the discussions at the Latin-American table that closer cultural ties must be established with South America. As chairman of the International Trade Table, D. A. Schmechel, Yale '40, stressed the importance of the Hull trade agreement program coupled with economic sanctions against aggressors, as a move for world peace...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...