Word: occidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men have an especial interest in the inauguration of this latest introduction of modern educational methods into the Orient in view of the formation of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last year which led to the re-organization and expansion of the Chinese Department in the University. It has been...
The valuable and unique donations of Baron von Stael-Holstein to the Harvard collections as described in the news columns of this morning's CRIMSON, have an especial significance in that they enrich the shelves and panels of Widener and Fogg in a field which is comparatively untouched. Harvard is...
"You see what a great land our ancestors have handed down to us and we who are their descendants have not made use of our inheritance. The wars of the Occident are all for the possession of just those minerals which we have in such abundance but which, for lack...
The Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document...
Yet only 75 years ago Japan mortally feared and hated the U. S. and all the Occident. But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations." In a flurry of trepidation and prayers the Japanese received his suggestions, sewing machines, toy trains...