Word: saxonism
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...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...
...these days of the printing press, electrical appliances, and the automobile, it is difficult to realize that not very long ago the general culture of our own Anglo-Saxon ancestors had not reached a much higher level than that of some of the more cultured tribes of America...
...Mexico lies far deeper; it is the total lack of any strong tradition to use as a cornerstone in building up a government, English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half a dozen times...
...body ridiculous, and the word Senator carry unpleasant associations original meaning, literally, was "the assembly of old men". Of course what this implies is that wisdom and experience are usually the possessions of old men, and that they are therefore capable of making decisions and judging impartially. The Anglo-Saxon Witanagemot was founded on this principle, and was, by name, at least, the assembly of the wise...