Rev. Samuel Haworth in leading chapel Monday morning discussed some of his experiences in Europe. He characterized the Atlantic as “a gulf that separates two worlds.” The Speaker described the physical characteristics of Europe as very different from those of America, contrasting the sunny skies of America with the fog-laden, rainy British Isles.
Mr. Haworth described European customs and ideas thus: “There is the projection of the past into the present that we do not have in America. Some evidences of the past continuing into the present is the cathedrals and museums. The British museum is the greatest collection in the world. There is a sense of underlying community between England and America, and between the past and present.
Mr. Haworth then characterized the movements of civilization as cyclic. “There is a community of interest,” said he, “among peoples. I want to lay this challenge before you that the world today needs the realization of the big neighborhood idea. Let each put his life into this big plan. One’s life is given him for service to humanity.”
From the front page of The Guilfordian, student newspaper of Guilford College, October 15, 1924
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