Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...
...come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...
...thing I heard at the exhibition. A lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks...
...France, although he had until yesterday received no substantial recognition here. The same is true of MeIchers. The very existence of such a body as the American Academy, and the recognition it accorded the two new members, does something toward removing the impression that we are as a nation indifferent to achievements in arts and letters, and that we have no standards in such matters. The Academy is striving to establish and maintain such standards, as well as to encourage and stimulate interest in them. --Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
...only will the trader gain the broad intellectual outlook that only life abroad can give, but he will acquire a knowledge which may some day culminate in the founding of a successful domestic industry. He will be able to given the nation an international point of view, the lack of which has recently given us so much difficulty, he will be able to make his mind go across the seas and consider the policies of those whom he has actually seen and whom he knows, and he will give cause for the further growth of Harvard's democratic ideals among...