Word: new
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significance of this new organization lies in the fact that Copenhagen is the centre of Scandinavian learning. It means another great race has entered the field of international education in which the French and Anglo-Saxon have...
With a larger membership than for many years past, the Law Clubs are now preparing to enter the Ames Prize competition. Twenty-five of the old clubs have already started, and, although 21 new ones have been formed, it is expected that one or two more will have to be organized to accommodate the large number of men who wish to join...
...Federation of that city, a student organization, has threatened to call a country-wide strike of students if there is no Federal intervention between the Teachers' Union and the director-general of schools. This appears to be the utmost refinement of the sympathetic strike, more mention of which a new years ago would have set the world to laughing. Nowadays, however, causes little comment, because seemingly fifty per cent. of the population of the globe is either on strike or about...
...longer is a true missionary a man whose purpose is to force his religion upon someone else. The modern missionary makes life easier where it is hardest. It may be that he is a physician in a country like India, which has fewer doctors than the city of New York. In this capacity he establishes hospitals that save thousands of deaths every year and extinguishes plagues that produce untold tragedy. Or he may be an economist, educator or business man who works to make living conditions better in countries where people have difficulty in finding the wherewithal to live...
...come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will be J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, a nation-wide movement for the achievement of this purpose has begun. This body has issued a statement which comes at a singularly apropos time for those who had the distinction of seeing the Cardinal: "As a tribute to his personal heroism during the war, this committee hopes...