Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australia lies in a position peculiarly exposed to Asiatic immigration. We are the outpost of the white race in the Orient. We constitute but a white drop in a colored ocean. Around us are the teaming millions of Asiatic people whose population equals half the population of the world. To open our doors freely to the natives of these overcrowded lands would be to invite an exodus from those countries, while civilization would be obliterated and an inferior one would take its place. This we feel would not be helpful to the world...
President C. F. Gates of Robert College, Constantinople, Turkey, will speak informally in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 4.30 on education in the Orient. The meeting, held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society, is open to all members of the University, and aims principally to give to those men who contemplate going abroad to teach a chance to ask questions in a personal way concerning opportunities in that field...
...brilliant coloring of the setting for the second act, the scene of which is laid in Petunia, Arabia, forms a decided contrast to the first. Here the artists have been careful to produce nothing which is not true in every detail, and have well caught the atmosphere of the orient...
...Educational Department. After graduation students will finish training and be assigned to one of the more than 50 foreign branches of the Bank. These are located in South and Central America and Europe. Some students may be assigned to branches of the International Banking Corporation, located chiefly in the Orient...
...Socialism is little heard of in the Orient, and it is for this reason alone that we now have cause to fear Russia. Japan harbors no hatred for the Russian people, but we cannot help instinctively fearing Bolshevism, lest it sweep away the age-old morality on which Japan has been built. I do not conceive of Bolshevism as being entirely bad--the fault is that the ignorant mind takes too literally anything new and striking. When affairs in Russia have settled down we shall be able to judge as to the faults and merits of the system that...