Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After a four years' stay abroad with four companions, Major Higginson returned in time to answer the first call for three year men to put down the Rebellion. Until he was sent home ill, he was an officer in the Second Massachusetts Infantry, whose wonderful record has been summed up by eulogists, as that of a regiment which "never left its position without orders." Upon returning to the army, Major Higginson joined a regiment of cavalry which did service throughout the rest...
...Travel characterizes nearly all of the graduates whom this concerns, for a large majority of them have spent a good many months traveling abroad and some few even going around the world. In the case of those who studied law, extensive travel always succeeded the two or three vigorous years they spent in law school...
...foreign exchange professors, Messrs, Eucken and Legouis, will leave the University at the beginning of the second half-year and the Harvard professors now abroad, Professor C. S. Minot at Berlin and Professor G. G. Wilson at Paris, will end their foreign residence at the same time...
...these days of new emphasis on the work of the College as opposed to the University, we need often to be reminded how curious some of our absorbing interests, and how juvenile some of our methods of discipline seem to scholars abroad. Professor Legouis hints, though most courteously, that in intellectual "Olympics" our "literary and scientific teams" might make a poor showing against competitors of the same age who were trained by the mature system of the Sorbonne. And Professor Eucken, though he refrains from open contrasts, emphasizes at the very outset of his article that "the character and importance...
...doubtless with mingled emotions that those few earnest students who were abroad shortly after the Harvard Hall bell ceased its matutinal jangling yesterday, saw the Yard invaded by a "horde of lusty Helots" armed with crow-bars and pickaxes; for their murderous intent upon Gore Hall was manifest. Those who have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore...