Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University have received, in the official reports which are few and far between, the only authentic information which has come to the United States. Since last year it has been generally known that a tomb of some significance was found by Dr. Reisner but nothing has been said with regard to the circumstances of the find and the probable value of the tomb...
Westerners usually regard the wholesale acceptance of western ways as progress. To conservative Orientals it must seem no less than retrogressive, if not irreligious. The changes obviously result from European contacts; but whether they will ever be more than superficial results of superficial contests, is a matter of some doubt...
...gaining ground, but the participation is still minimal. Something is being done in the way of competitive field and track contests, but it is unlikely that these will ever assume more than a fraction of the importance attached to them in America. The Germans of the better class still regard sport as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. In other words, small stress is laid on competitive contests and record-making...
...former enemies, and above all by France and Poland. The "passionate consciousness of race and nation" so natural to educated young men and women has been outraged too many times. The invasion of the Ruhr was a tremendous victory for all those Germans whom Americans in general regard as "reactionaries," the shooting down of German workmen at Essen at Easter time in 1923 was another, and every pinprick, big or small, has reduced still more the strength of the parties of the Left in Germany. Without the help of France, there would probably still be Socialists in the German cabinet...
...scholastic headquarters for every undergraduate dealing with these materials. The great English universities, whence proceeded the inspiration for the tutorial system, also exemplify this other excellent method of breathing the breath of life into learning. Neither is the University without its object lessons. Concentrators in Fine Arts come to regard the Fogg Museum as a human and satisfactorily personal place for academic work. The Lowell and Child Memorial Libraries and the Farnsworth Room are evidence that special collections of books are not impossible. The vast silences of great reading rooms and the anatomical appearance of glass-floored shadowy stacks...