Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this address, which will be essentially on the subject of foreign missions, Mr. Foster will speak from information gathered during his extended diplomatic services abroad. Mr. Foster, who was Secretary of State during the administration of President Harrison, has been United States ambassador to China, Mexico and Russia; and, at the invitation of both Japan and China, concluded the treaty which closed the recent war between these countries. He was United States consul before the arbitration board in London which settled in our favor the late Alaskan boundary dispute...
During the years from 1891 to 1896 the production of commodities in this country was greater than the consumption; since then the reverse has been true, and the consequent revival of industrial trade has made the "American invasion" of foreign markets more feared abroad than Chinese cheap labor...
...Harvard in 1891 and was then for two years the holder of the Henry Bromfield Rogers Memorial Fellowship in history and economics, attracting the attention of his professors, especially that of the late Professor Dunbar, by his remarkable work. During the next two years he studied abroad on a special fellowship established for his benefit by the Slater Fund, and while at the University of Berlin was the favorite student of Professor Schnoller, the great sociologist. In 1895 he returned here to take his doctor's degree in political science. He became professor at Wilberforce University, Ohio, and was soon...
...General Bancroft explained the relations of the company with the state and described briefly the working of the principal departments of the system. He illustrated his talk with pictures of the company's different apparatus and compared its appointments with those of other companies in the United States and abroad. Several views were shown, illustrating the obstacles encountered in subway and elevated railway construction...
...Atkinson '90, will deliver a lecture on "Education in the Philippines," tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock, in Phillips Brooks House. After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Atkinson studied abroad for several years and during this time visited schools throughout Germany, France and Austria. For a time he was superintendent of public instruction for the Philippine Islands, and he has been a frequent contributor to educational journals...