Word: european
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then, too, the Japanese, Spanish American, Chinese, and even European students are peculiarly sensitive and retiring. Obliged to be unusually studious in their native countries, so that their minds are developed often to a pitch of intelligence and interest which would amaze native born students, they get little opportunity to exchange their ideas for what is of peculiar value to them; namely, opportunity for friendly association and converse with American students...
What has been said concerning the Japanese students can be said with equal truth about the Siamese and Chinese. The Far East has sent many men to Harvard since the war closed European universities. Since the great barrier raised by the Bolsheviki at the Ural Mountains has bound us still more closely to these people, no such chance as this should be ignored to place relations upon the most cordial basis. The friendships formed in college today will develop into international friendships of tomorrow...
...several decades we have plodded placidly along, pointing aimiably to our superior education that teaches the young, the old, the rich, the poor alike and reduces ignorance in the lower classes to a smaller proportion than in any European country. Now the veil is rent and we see a hideous condition of things; and at the same time there appears the root of a number of evils...
...richest country in the world, with enormous products and exports, with nearly fifteen million foreign born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables and wireless, now a creditor in thousands of millions, to many European governments, owner of immense values in foreign securities, keep out of the complications of modern industrial and economic life...
...Mechanics Building will be permanently recognized; and we shall be in a position to press peace and democracy upon the rest of the world. When men argue that we are thus putting the destinies of the United States out of our hands, they mean that there is danger that European nations will combine against us in spite of the League of Nations. Other nations, however, give up far more than we, in admitting the United States to share with them in preserving peace