Word: abroad
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...significant things in the new "Index" which appeared Thursday is the increased number of Harvard clubs registered. In few ways can the influence of the university be better extended, or respect and enthusiasm for Harvard be more effectually spread abroad than this banding together of old alumni all over our great country. To whom the happy idea of instituting these clubs belongs we do not know, but now that they do exist, nothing seems more natural than that these old Harvard boys, with the same memories and associations should come together. And yet, if we are not mistaken, Harvard...
Several communications have been received in which suggestions were made that in some way the students ought to be better informed of the methods of Post-Graduate Study as pursued not only at Harvard but also in other Universities both in America and abroad. Several men of each class always intend to pursue post-graduate courses of study and certainly for the interests of the university should be furnished with every means of carrying on such work. Suggestions will be gladly received...
...President Porter returned from a four and one half months' foreign trip on Sunday. While abroad he has been the recipient of the highest honors, a degree from Heidelberg and an L. L. D. from the University of Edinburgh. His usual good health is restored, and he will resume, after the Thanksgiving recess, his old position with the seniors as instructor in Ethics...
...over. The last speech has been said, the last round of applause has been heard. The anniversary will be long memorable in the history of American education. The distinguished visitors from foreign universities evidence the high interest which is felt in Harvard University among other schools of learning abroad. The friends and graduates of the university may now well feel proud that their beloved school has been enabled to carry to so successful a conclusion a celebration distinguished by so many remarkable features. Rarely, perhaps never, in the history of the college, have so great a number of interesting events...
POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard...