Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Hanover undergraduates know who is most likely to succeed in life, what man's tailor to patronize, and whose brow in truth is the highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled...
...fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start, a further progression may commence strengthening the position of American literature in the college curriculum...
...States closed a separate treaty with Hungary at Budapest in 1921 from which the new frontiers of mutilated Hungary were omitted. This shows that the United States was the first power to discover that, as Professor Langer points out, "in the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment and in view of the vaguenes of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question" and further that "the great weakness of the peace settlement was not that it had not solved...
...most dangerous questions in European politics and that the reason why "the present arrangements for the protection of minorities are inadequate" lies largely in the fault of the peace settlements; not least in the case of Hungary which lost, by the Treaty of Trianon, without any legal self-determination or plebiscite, three and a half millions Hungarians to the so called successor states, thus creating not one but four Alsace-Lorraines in the middle of Europe
...President Hoover's first cabinet meeting assembled eleven men besides himself. The eleventh was Vice President Curtis who will attend Cabinet meetings as did Calvin Coolidge when Vice President. Most of the new members were somewhat self conscious when they appeared. Walter F. Brown the Postmaster General came in breezily having been a friend of President Harding's and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Vice President Curtis was as much at his ease as anyone, was greeted familiarly by all. Of the old Cabinet members, Secretary Mellon slipped in by a side door as usual, Secretary Davis came...