Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAPITALISM IN AMERICA (119 pp.)-Frederick Martin Stern-Rlnehart...
When Frederick Martin Stern went to visit the U.S. in 1935, all his well-bred European friends warned him what to expect. Americans were rude, they everlastingly "chased the dollar," they were cultural midgets. For a while, Frederick Stern looked at the U.S. through morose-colored glasses, waited a good two years before moving his wife and two children from Switzerland to New Rochelle, N.Y. But even before that, he began asking himself a practical businessman's question: "How did people in the United States manage to build industries and cities so fast, how did they have such opportunities...
...even in this stern mood, the Virginia teachers did not try to get rid of intercollegiate football or other sports. They want to see football continued, but only as a sport, not a business. It is hard for any college now to turn its back on potential football revenues, but if Virginia and other big-time colleges balance the moral with the financial factors, they can hardly fail to come to the same conclusions as the Virginia faculty...
...that year a group of ten stern-faced men gathered in the parsonage of Abraham Pierson in Branford. Connecticut and each tossed some books on a table as their contribution to the founding of a college. These men were all ministers who outraged at Harvard's unenthusiastic attitude toward such Calvinistic doctrines as infant damnation and predestination, had decided to establish a rival institution. All but one of the ton were Harvard graduates...
Yale's ingratitude began to manifest itself more obviously in the middle of the 18th century, when, by stoutly defending the stern Calvinism of Edwards, it succeeded in attracting students whose parents were growing suspicious of Harvard's increasing "liberalism." Harvard, by this time had abandoned the custom of flogging students for college offenses...