Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While en route from Liverpool to New York Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and he is finding it necessary to write anew upon his subjects for the Norton series...
...Eight years ago when I visited China I felt rather hopeless for the Chinese because I observed no cockiness. On the contrary I saw 400,000,000 people floundering around, most of them absolutely illiterate and nobody doing anything to speak of to teach them to read and write. Two or three mercenary revolutions were in full swing and everybody seemed to be taking a fatalistic view of the chaotic situation. The few educated Chinese I talked with complained bitterly of what was going on, but when they were asked why they themselves did not plunge in and do their...
...Novelist and dramatist like his father, Alexandre fils (1824-95) began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
...past, is at present a short sighted one. There remains the shadow of hatred from nations whom economic pressure drives to envy and despair. This is the real warning from Professor Taussig? It is the real danger in the tariff, and it awaits a generation which did not write the bill...
...hundred years from now, some budding Ph. D. will write a thesis on "The Social Influence of the Automobile" and it ought to be a good one. What they have done to Harvard as a community is only an example on the large scale of what they have done to every American family. The bisecting of the college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends...