Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...latest issue of the Alumni Bulletin there is published an article by J. B. Chevalier '08 on "The Place of Harvard in Foreign Trade." Mr. Chevalier has lived abroad since graduating from the University, chiefly in India and China, and is therefore in a good position to judge how great is the University's influence in foreign trade...
...comparison of the influence of the University abroad as compared with that of other colleges, Mr. Chevalier says "The writer has spent years in countries where there are millions and millions of human beings who never heard of Harvard. Visits to many countries give and the impression that there are more Yale and Cornell men abroad than Harvard men, and probably more Cornell men than Harvard and Yale men combined...
What is the remedy? Instead of spending a year or two in continental countries acquiring culture men should go abroad and spend the same period of time engaged in the foreign trade of the United States, for the foreign trade of this country is as certain to develop after the end of the present war as the present...
...only will the trader gain the broad intellectual outlook that only life abroad can give, but he will acquire a knowledge which may some day culminate in the founding of a successful domestic industry. He will be able to given the nation an international point of view, the lack of which has recently given us so much difficulty, he will be able to make his mind go across the seas and consider the policies of those whom he has actually seen and whom he knows, and he will give cause for the further growth of Harvard's democratic ideals among...
...revealed by its prospectus. As a result of the war, many European journals of research have been forced to suspend publication, and in further consequence the editors of the Harvard Theological Review, seeking material for their issues, have had much valuable matter spontaneously offered to them by scholars abroad who, in the ordinary course, would have published their works in similar journals of Holland, Germany or England. The fact tends to place America, as it were, in a new position as the world's clearing house for the fruits of scholarly research. What has occurred in the field of theology...