Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which have appeared this winter are "The Theatre of George Jean Nathan" by Isaaac Goldberg '10, "Why Call it Anything?" by R.C. Benchley '12, and "Lord of Himself", a novel by Percy Marks, A.M. '14. J.R. Dos Jassos '16 has also contributed to the number of novels with his "Orient Express...
Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
...conference relations in general between the Orient and America will be discussed, and educational relations will be propounded particularly. It is the purpose of the Institute to foster better understanding between the East and the United States, and to better relations between the two continents--Some of the specific questions to be considered by the convention will be the obtaining of visas by and for foreign students wishing to enter the United States, and the regulating of the number of foreigners entering America, to study and to live...
...will make the convention comparatively small in size, and thereby make it possible for men from the various countries to become well acquinted with one another. It is by this means that it is hoped it will be possible to better mutually, relations between the United States and the Orient...
...this were the whole story, the Golden Day could not have existed at all. But the new nation had its hour of glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned...