Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard. The times in which we live have got very far away from those in which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem to spring in modern times from the allegiance which is bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care...
...picture at Boston's largest theatre this week was received with a cold and stony silence. Not so at the Harvard's own University Theatre. Here the picture was greeted with hisses, hoots, and sneezes on the part of the enlightened members of the audience. All of which would seem to indicate that Nicaragua is becoming poor "copy" for popular consumption, and so constantly irritating as to introduce a strange demonstrative among tired Mid-years sufferers in search of relaxation...
...eminent Teutons, notably Herr Ludwig and Herr Keyserling, who have been foreshadowing the future of this country in abstractions, seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is good and appropriate Latin. But on consideration, other parallels are evident. The tributary nations, such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl...
Irish Chicagoans were titillated thus: "No city in the history of the world has been so libeled. The citizens seem to me to be more Irish than we are in Ireland and at the same time first class, tiptop American citizens. . . . Ireland is the mother, America the wife...
...times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union] on account of any pronouncement that may come from anywhere, even though it might seem unfortunate at the moment...