Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast increase in number of students and size of the University endowment. The brilliant and far-reaching conceptions of his predecessors have been shaped and welded by President Lowell into a working whole which maintains Harvard in its honored position at the forefront of American education. While the nation has been becoming a world power the University has become a national institution...
...this particular game and I remember distinctly that McGinnity struggled with John Evers, not with Joe Tinker. Hugh Fullerton, the celebrated baseball expert, bears me out in his article "The Game that Stirred the Nation," in Liberty, July 14, 1928. He writes: "Joe Mc-Ginnity, the 'Iron Man' pitcher of the Giants, who had been coaching at first base, had seen Merkle's fatal blunder. He ran into the field and rushed at Evers. The ball was tossed to Evers just as McGinnity tackled him. McGinnity tore the ball from his hands, and while they fought, threw...
...pipe to speak, his words were still those of a dollar doctor, a caustic budgetarian. In words scarcely those of a diplomatist, he announced loudly enough for every foreign country to hear him, that if the Dominican Republic adopted his commission's recommendations it would be the first independent nation to have a thoroughly modern and scientific budget system...
Mustering forces to defend the national honor, the American Legian prepared to call the roll, Boston dowagers girded their armor to fall in line, daring debutantes atremble with excitement equipped themselves with stamps and awaited the word to blot from the invidious Artkino program the names of those who led the rest. Swelling the ranks, officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their...
...Fundamentally, however, they are partners and not rivals. They share the same scholarly and educational purposes, and seek to contribute to the same nation the same type of trained youth. What is a gain for one such college is also a gain for the other. Loyalty to such a college, being loyalty to the cause which that college shares with others of a like mind, extends itself naturally to these allies and so finds itself renewed and confirmed." Daily Princetonian