Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...importance than the crew or nine? The rules which regulate 'Varsity men apply equally as regards tug-of-war or nine. Why, then, should '88 take advantage of her opponents and put a man on her class team who undoubtedly is a member of the team which represents Harvard abroad...
...what has become of that much agitated national foot-ball team which was to be sent abroad in the interest of American college sports by that fast developing institution? On the whole, perhaps, the quadrangular league sounds well enough as it is. - Yale Courant...
...spring-like weather of yesterday attracted a large crowd of students to the boat-house, since it had been noised abroad that the 'Varsity and the class crews were to make their first appearance of the season. The water in the river was very high, covering a large part of "Harvard Park...
...library, and incidental expenses have been paid, each college in turn sending a professor to Athens as director for one year without expense to the School. Under this temporary arrangement the School has already done much good work, which has been cordially recognized both at home and abroad. With the coming year a new era begins. We are henceforth to have a home of our own. The government of Greece has shown such warm interest in our enterprise, that a valuable piece of land on Mount Lycabettus, containing about an acre an a half, has been granted to the School...
...public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this flight for knowledge is a confession of the inability to acquire that knowledge here. Does it not seem as if this great...