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...suspected that this might be the case, for it seems very logical that it should be so. (I am only surprised that the percentage [24%] should be as low as it is.) I do not base this opinion on the fact that the South is still more purely Anglo-Saxon than any other part of the country, and would therefore have the strongest emotional impulse to aid Britain...
Founded by Glenn Saxon '44 and S. A. Tucker '44, the Club's aims are to supervise all building at Harvard, especially the new library. Membership fee is ten cents, and sister chapters are expected to spring up soon in Wellesley and Radcliffe...
...north and almost 1,000 miles east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
Professor Sleator: "Summer in the Saxon English which we speak by inheritance means the warm season. A dictionary definition is 'the hottest or warmest season of the year, including June, July and August in the northern hemisphere.' . . . Moreover, so people have written English in poetry and prose. 'No price is set on the lavish summer, June may be had by the poorest comer.' June, not just June...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...