Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first three are dead, the fourth has gone back to his native continent, and the fifth has retired. A successor as distinguished as any one of them is not immediately in sight, and Harvard must feel deeply her losses in a division of instruction that drew students even from abroad--as the brilliant editor of the Hibbert Journal, L. P. Jacks. Many of the departments even in a university like Harvard are departments whose strength resides chiefly in one man. When an Agassiz or a Shaler dies or retires, a weakening of the reputation of the institution in his branch...
...always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England by knighthood, France by membership in one of the famous learned societies. Efforts have frequently been made here to establish some such governmental honor, but Congress has always considered it out of harmony with the principles...
John Shaw Pfaffmann '17, of Quincy, has been elected captain of the University tennis team to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of G. C. Caner '17, who is going abroad to drive an ambulance. Pfaffmann was a regular on last year's team. The loss of Caner will be keenly felt, as he was the mainstay of the University team in the Intercollegiate last fall, winning the singles championship and with R. Harte '17 the doubles championship...
Charles A. Stone, Technology 1888, retiring president of the Association, emphasized the fact that it is the technically trained men who are fighting the battles abroad today; who will direct the reconstruction after the conflict, and who will be needed to prepare this country for the altered industrial conditions after...
Lines, who lived in Paris for many years, was one of the first of the college volunteers to enlist with the American Ambulance, going abroad when a member of the third-year class in the Law School. After serving the greater part of a year, during which he continued his studies as best he could, he returned and graduated with his class in June, 1915. Immediately he returned to France and resumed his duties at the front. During his work with the Ambulance, Lines had many narrow escapes from death and twice underwent operations for injuries contracted from heavy lifting...