Word: one
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world today through Western eyes," claims Yone Noguchi, Japanese poet and professor of English Literature at the University of Tokio. Perhaps the best known of Oriental poets, Noguchi has taken the place of Lofcadio Hearn in bringing into closer touch the civilizations of the East and West. He is one of the few foreigners to adopt English as the language for his poetry, and all his work shows an ability to handle English as no other non-English poet save Tagore has done...
...game proved conclusively the solidifying effect that intercollegiate athletics have had in the past upon the members of colleges situated on either coast of the continent. Behind the Harvard team stood the hearty support of all her Eastern rivals. Forgetting their personal ambitions they rallied and stood as one in wishing the eleven well in their conflict with the common opponent-the West...
...technical schools together. It shows the scientific world the great benefit of the schools and hence helps us. Secondly, it benefits the school financially. Already contracts totalling over $7,000,000 have been signed and as the number is fast growing, the financial benefit is an appreciably great one...
...school in the country, which I know of that has actively begun work corresponding to ours, is Cornell which has thrown its scientific facilities open to the use of industrial concerns, under almost exactly the same system which we employ here. An interesting feature of Cornell's work and one which goes to show that we were the first in America to start such a policy is that Cornell calls their work the Technology Plan. Although I do not think that other institutions have offered their facilities to industries under any such a system as ours, I have no doubt...
...indeed a remarkable demonstration of the strength of intercollegiate athletics as a "tie that binds." But this is not enough. If athletics carried on between colleges of one section of the country can do so much to further a feeling of unity at the call of conflict, why allow the work of cohesion to stop at that point? It now remains for other colleges to come forward in a united effort towards the furthering of intersectional athletics, in order that the nation, in its love of healthy rivalry, may reap the great reward of greater national sympathy and understanding...