Word: abroad
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...lives in the diplomatic service, but for ten years he held by appointment important positions in European capitals. By his ability and tact he has placed himself on the list of distinguished Harvard graduates who have brought honor on themselves and the University as representatives of the United States abroad...
President Nicholas Murray Butler has been president of Columbia University since 1902. He has an enviable reputation as an educator and a scholar, as his long list of honorary degrees from universities at home and abroad testifies. In addition to serving on a number of commissions of education and on boards of trustees he has achieved distinction in the study of philosophy. His activities have not been confined to this country as he has studied and lectured in Germany, France, and England. Only last summer he lectured in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Christiania. While at Columbia President Butler has firmly opposed...
...Michigan in the class of 1890. Since 1902 he has been a member of the Economics department of the University, becoming professor in 1906. Last spring he was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and was given charge of this new department. Professor Gay has studied abroad, and in 1902 received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. He was born in Detroit, Mich., October...
...Every existing department of the University has been established or remodeled in accordance with his plans. In the College freedom of choice in study has replaced an enforced uniformity. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been created, and has commended itself to students and scholars here and abroad. In the Divinity School the pursuit of truth has been freed from the trammels of sect. To the present improved methods of instruction in medicine he has contributed more than any other person in America. Guided by the man of his choice, the Law School has become the accepted model...
...authority on classical philology, and his administrative ability was of immeasurable value in the development of the Graduate School. It is to such men as Dean Wright, men of great personal charm and profound learning, that Harvard owes the place which she now holds in this country and abroad...