Word: abroad
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...than passing notice. The expression of opinion we are told has been sent not only to the authorities in Cambridge, but to the Association of Colleges in New England, an organization that includes a large percentage of Harvard's athletic rivals. At home it will carry great weight, but abroad it is too likely to be heard with indifferent respect. Coming at a time when all Harvard men are awaiting the outcome of an effort to restore athletic relations between Harvard and Princeton, its effect upon Harvard schedules will be out of all proportion to that upon the athletic calendars...
...While abroad last summer G. Emerson '08, manager of the University track team, conferred with representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and discussed the situation with a view to effecting a resumption of the contests. On his return to America, he conferred with the Yale track management, who are also anxious to arrange the meet...
...financial support of the graduates of Harvard and Yale to make the meet a certainty. The fact that the men who will compete in the Olympic games from America will go at the expense of the Olympic committee, will materially lessen the expense of sending a dual team abroad, as representatives of Harvard and Yale will undoubtedly be chosen to form part of the American team. A portion of the funds, moreover, which were collected for the last international contest are still unused, and this fact will be a potent influence in completing the arrangements...
...Halt p. '78; "Venetian Life," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "Quantitative Punctuations," by J. D. Logan '94; "Whose Home is in the Wilderness," by W. J. Long '92; "Athens and About There," by P. S. Marden l. '98; "Cathedral Cities of France," by H. L. Marshall '02; "Abroad the Hylow," by J. Otis '81; "The Democratic Ideal," by M. Reed '68; "Admiral's Light," by H. M. Rideout '99; "What Rollins '80; "The Development and Chronology of Chaucer's Works," by J. S. Tatlock...
...care of all foreign students coming to Ann Arbor, and indirectly strengthens the University's reputation in foreign lands. To the club are elected the pick of the foreign students, and a number of Americans, not exceeding one-sixth of the membership of the club, who must have lived abroad for two years and must be able to speak two languages fluently. Each nationality has its representative who acts as an informal consul in matters affecting the students from his own country. The club is proving a boon to the foreigners at Michigan, who find in it an organization upon...