Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table. On it a skillful craftsman was laboriously fashioning little blocks of metal into the forms of graceful letters, using a manuscript of Petrarch's for his model. What conversation he heard would be unintelligible to him, for these men spoke of business not in volatile Italian but in the old tongue of Pindar and Plato...
...gathering the functions and purpose of the League which is closely patterned after the organization of the Council and Assembly of the League of Nations sitting at Geneva. In the early part of the last decade Professor Elliott was instrumental in the organization and work of a model league of nations at Oxford, where the experiment met with great success in spite of the enmity still existing between the nations represented in the institution because...
Under the title "Defrocking the Model", an editorial in yesterday's edition of the CRIMSON dealt with the "Harvard League Of Nations", which is going to have its initial meeting tonight in Phillips Brooks House. As chairman of the preparatory committee, I would like to say a few words in reply...
...answering the criticisms made against the "Harvard League of Nations" as a body unpractical to deal with the international cause at Harvard, I agree fully with the part stating the failure of the "Model League of Nations" meetings...
...want to state clearly again: The "Harvard League of Nations" has nothing in common with those Model League meetings, which from my own experience seem complete failures. While at those meetings American Students have to represent the official point of view of the government of the country they represent, often even misinterpretd into a far too nationalistic sense, on the other hand, they do not have the feeling of responsibility which a student will have representing his nation in a foreign country. In the Harvard League of Nations the opposite will be the case. Students, conscious of the honor...