Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooks '26, another track man, will leave this country shortly for a trip of a year or more around the world. They are making the trip as the guests of Lord and Lady Astor, the latter being Brooks aunt. Before sailing from San Francisco for the Orient in mid-October they will be the guests of Douglas Fairbanks for a few days...
...York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia when America and the Orient overflow their Continents, and also pointed a finger of suspicion at Japan for the late Philippine disturbances. Suave Tsurumi avowed Japan's innocence...
...first to speak was Sir Valentine Chirol, onetime foreign Editor of The London Times and Royal Commissioner on Indian Public Service. His theme was The Reawakening of the Orient. Said he: " Never before has the white man stressed the color bar as he does today ? never before has the Orient denied his claim to racial superiority as it does today. . . . Hostility to all foreigners has never been so deliberately and insolently displayed as it is today...
...Embassy that exception would be made for goods in transit before July 5, if application were made before the forthcoming promulgation (official announcement) of the new law. This answer met the only legitimate objection to the measure, but it is certain that U. S. trade in the Orient, very largely in 'luxuries" such as flivvers, will be hard hit by the measure...
Precocity is a word that may well be used to describe this sister college of the Orient, when one remembers that a brief score of years has seen its growth into one of the leading institutions of the world's largest nation. The process of growth has been no smoother than one might expect in a city where a semi-monthly revolution or two is the ordinary distraction from academic pursuits, but the present year has seen important development in a unified administration looking forward to still greater progress under President Hume...