Word: western
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...greatest moral problem that the western world has to face at the present time is materialism and commercialism, and it is because of the over-valuation that men place on worldly goods that the progress of the world is so slow. The world of the Middle Ages was anything but ideal, being full of greed, cruelty, and lust, but the world of today is above all else, symbolical of materialism...
...position, Hungary is the gateway between the East and West, a gateway which demands a firm hand to keep it closed. Many governments had been built up and had given way before the incursions of stronger races. Finally, the forefathers of the present inhabitants settled in there and became Western Christians. After a long invasion the Turks were driven out, and a firm buffer protected the West from the East. The preservation of Hungary thus brought about has been most remarkable, and its solution has been the early assertion of a strong spirit of national unity. This unity...
...current number of the Advocate irresistibly suggests a conundrum asking the reason for its likeness to the Collection of Western Art in the Boston Museum. The answer is obvious; each contains one work of marked excellence relieved against productions of more or less ordinary merit. The extraordinary object in the Boston Museum is the Greek throne; the thing of distinction in the Advocate is Mr. Alken's poem...
...feet on each side of the station. At Harvard square the walls at the point where the surface cars go down into the subway have been constructed of brick and sandstone in keeping with the walls about the University grounds. There are three exits for cars at the western end of the subway, one opposite Holden Chapel for cars bound north, one just east of Brattle Hall for cars for Newton and Mount Auburn, and a large exit into the yard at Eliot square. All three branches unite in the middle of Harvard square and the two tubes run east...
...committee, so if later they decide to go to Chicago they may be sure of a welcome from any member of the following committee: A. Boal '00, 150 Michigan avenue; A. G. cable '09, 240 Wabash avenue; F. S. Churchill '86, 1259 North state street; F. D. Delsno '85, Western Union Building; H. A. deWindt '81, 215 Monroe street; W. E. Egan '05, 189 La Salle Street; F. Hamlin '84, 107 Dearborn street; G. S. Jackson '05, Monsdnock Block; G. R. Jones '05, 205 La Salie street; C. H. Schweppe '02. The Rookery: S. K. Wood '92, 3924 Michigan avenue...