Word: alterity
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...university." Europe, in which he spent two of the early and one of the later '60s as a young mathematics and chemistry researcher, conceived the U. S. as an intellectual wilderness with but one stockaded stronghold of pioneer culture, Boston, and a single blockhouse, Harvard. Resolved to alter the basis for this conception, Dr. Eliot declined the treasurership of a big spinning company, taught at Boston Tech and wrote to the magazines attacking U. S. educational methods. He advanced the notion that their curse was uniformity. His pointed strictures drew the attention of the Harvard Corporation which...
...temperature of the passions has been grossly exaggerated, the the picture is commonplace enough to justifly the general tone of its advertising. The story concerns a group of virtuous people whom Fate forces into exile as prisoners of Devil's Island until a powerful friend happens to alter the situation a decade or two later...
...ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than...
...fact that Dartmouth has hung the Indian sign on the Crimson nine for so many years, however, makes a triumph over the Green much to be desired and it is possible that Coach Mitchell may alter his plans and start Barbee in the box tomorrow, and against Yale in the second game in Cambridge...
...complications make this less attractive to the patriot and one hundred per cent national publicity agent than casual glance could suggest. For South Bend is alter all but one city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future...