Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearly all the American colleges and universities are now available. The figures show some very interesting facts. Out of twenty representative institutions all but one show an increase in registration. This is very possibly due to the European war, which has forced many who were taking their education abroad to remain in this country. The figures for this year and last follow: 1913-14 1914-15 Amherst, 420 415 Brown, 961 1011 Columbia, 9773 10,961 Cornell, 4619 4848 Dartmouth, 1329 1390 Harvard, 4354 4516 Leland Stanford, Jr., 1739 1884 M. I. T., 1680 1818 Northwestern, 4490 4632 Princeton...
...mere "understatement and restraint"; the desideratum is that prejudice and passion be understated and restrained, and still more that the facts be stated and lib- erated. Let those whose privilege it is to be possessed of pertinent facts about the situation express them boldly and publish them abroad for our enlightenment; but let those of us whose misfortune it is to harbor only blind and unreasoned opinions (and vague illusions as to how American sympathies ought to run and why, etc.), assume that humility implied in "understatement and restraint." Only when we can know the hard facts can we direct...
Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes of the Psychological Department has been given his Sabbatical this year. He intended to go abroad but up to the present time the war has prevented...
...trustee of the American School at Athens. Appointments which he held from the Overseers of the College were upon the committee on classics and the committee on government. In 1903 he provided the funds for lecturing on classical literature and literary subjects in the University by eminent scholars abroad...
...Harvard victory was popular beyond expectation. The visitors were treated like the English college eights, and every mark of courtesy and English hospitality was shown them. The response of the various English crews to the invitation extended them "to drink out of the Grand Challenge Cup before it went abroad" was beyond anything ever known at Henley befor