Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear, deep voice Bishop Brent read a passage from the Bible. Apart from any meaning, the words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon which followed was like this, too. It was the encouraging hand grip of a man you could trust. Then the choir sang as only Dr. Davison can make a choir sing--feeling expressed in music. And everyone joined in a hymn and listened to the tense little prayer which concluded the service...
...opinion that Germany must be forced to pay and that the present policy of France has been adopted as a direct result of the lessons of experience, while the British plan is likely to be suicidal rather for the Anglo-Saxon nations than for France. A. DN CUGNAC 1G. February...
...possible that the organization's strength is overestimated. Its secrecy and the bravado of its officials make accurate facts inaccessible; and the unusual circumstances of its acts encourage publicity out of all proportion to their real importance. Its professed policy, of upholding law and order and Anglo-Saxon supremacy in-the face of duly appointed officials, frightens the public into exaggerated alarm, as does all questioning of established authority...
...which troubled students of a decade ago in every field. He must now not only gain a complete knowledge of the Bible and Shakespeare--a knowledge which would seem to be sufficient foundation--but he must take three specified courses; selected from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton and Bacon, and Anglo-Saxon. If, at the end of his college career, he has not a complete knowledge of the earlier English writers, it is his own fault. He has built his structure of learning not upon a rock, but upon a whole rock-pile...
...communication from a Harvard graduate, in which was pointed out the lack of any English courses dealing with modern literature or contemporary writing of any kind. There is very little difference between the English courses offered for the present year, and those of fifteen years ago. Moreover, the Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer requirements are the same...