Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph Kellogg, Secretary of the Central Bureau for Relief of the Evangelical Churches of Europe, issued a statement. "We have a common saying over in Europe that, from a military point of view, France has won the War; from the political, England; from the economic, America; from the racial, the Slav; from the cultural, the Jews, and from the religious point of view, the Roman Catholic Church...
...Thomas R. Garth, of Denver University, in a survey of Indian mentality, found that five racial groups could be differentiated in resistance to mental fatigue. Western nomadic Indians showed the best resistance...
...Filene's statement continued, "I am in sympathy with an enterprise such as this, which, I am told, is giving 150,000 students in 16 war-ridden nations of Europe a chance to carry on with their studies. It is significant, I believe, that there are no creedal, racial, or national discriminations in the administration of this Fund. The world today needs some practical illustrations of the possibilities of applied idealism. This cooperation of the college youth of 36 nations in the Student Friendship Fund is one such illustration. I believe in that sort of thing...
...convention will be opened with four addresses dealing with four great themes which are being discussed in the colleges throughout the country this Fall, "Modern Industrialism," "Racial Relations and Christian Brotherhood," "International Problems and the Christian Way of Life," and "Present Day Social and Intellectual Unrest." The second day will be devoted to group discussions of these subjects, and the remainder of the convention will be given to a more detailed study of the conditions in various parts of the world...
Lord Robert has been described as "silent, quiet, destitute of elegance, apparently absentminded, cold, courteous.'" A London newspaper said of him, that, being a Cecil, "he was denied by racial antecedents all capacity to excite himself." Lord Robert is a lawyer, and is as well versed in ecclesiastical as in international law. He is a devoted and sincere Christian, and has probably done as much to get people to go to church as has any living man. In spite of being so well equipped, he has devoted most of his days to politics and, as a result...