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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such progress, Gode is convinced Interlingua will succeed where other universal languages have failed. Connected with its development ever since the early beginnings in the 1920's, he insists that Interlingua, unlike Esperanto, is not artificially constructed, which accounts for a good deal of its success. No words have been invented or constructed; they were all extracted from a common European base including the Romance tongues, English, German, and, to a degree, Russian. Gode claims the language is simultaneously French, English, Spanish, and so on. Each language is streamlined by elimination of idiosyncratically distinctive features...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

Gode says that Interlingua is especially suited for the needs of scientists, and that scientific terms are basically the same in all languages. From this fact he develops his main argument in favor of Interlingua; that progress in the world today is dependent on science, and science emanates exclusively from the West. It it is this scientific link which binds the world together culturally and gives the supranational dynamism necessary for Interlingua's success...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

Brown believes that students feel the stress of individual competition in both curricular and extra-curricular activities. The inevitable result, he suspects, is that more students are disappointed than are gratified. Hence they have turned to an activity which is both non-competitive and altruistic in character. Social progress in the last few years has taken much of the old stuff from campus political movements and hospital work gives students a new form of expression, he says...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: 'Decline from Ivory Tower' Spurs Hospital Volunteers | 12/2/1955 | See Source »

...first issue, which will be about 130 pages long, includes among its articles "Class Consciousness in Liberal Thought" by Louis Harts '40, associate professor of Government, "Liberalism: The Next Step" by Kaplowitz, "The Pilgrim's Progress of John Dos Passos" by Anthony Winner, and "The Business Man as Hero" the Jane Johnson Alan Grossman's "Berlin Poems" will also be in the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students to Begin Liberal Quarterly | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...Baumanns became citizens and, as soon as the war was over, opened a restaurant on Broad Street in Boston. Things went smoothly until a new highway came along, and the restaurant had to make way for progress. Last spring, with the help of friends, they started all over again in Cambridge...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Hamburg Special | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

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