Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, will give the fourth of his series of seven lectures on the Near East this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum. The lecture, which will be given in French, will be on, "The Arabs and their Historical Place in the Orient...
...deliver the third of a series of seven lectures in French in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Professor Gautier, who is Professor of Geography at the University of Algiers and French Exchange Professor to the University, will lecture on "L'Orient et l'Islam...
With the notable exception of the dark-skinned East Indian, the yellow men from the Orient, and some of the Americans, the members of the English universities, one and all, indulge in sport: There are many more athletic fields than at Harvard. And all are crowded. What is the system which brings this about? It is based on intramural sports, on inter-college rivalry. Each one of the eighteen colleges at Cambridge has its own rugby teams. Every man, be he good or bad, is given a chance to play at least three times a week; the best players...
...China", writes Marcel Rouff in an article reprinted in the current "Living Age", "offers the world an unprecedented example of a nation wise enough not to be led astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self...
...grave problem M. Rouff presents. The nations would extend their hand to the Orient, to draw her from her peaceful worship of the philosophical gods that she may taste of the romance of international commerce. But, M. Rouff says, China will not submit to the proffered modernization. She will not make merchants of her mandarins; she will keep her narrow streets and rickshaws and pagodas while the West goes its way to destruction...