Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eight years later--ground may be broken for a building which in every way will be worthy to house the splendid specimens of German art given to Harvard University by the German Emperor, other German princes and governments, and numerous friends of German culture both in this country and abroad...
Provision for the establishment of a "Henry Russell Shaw Fund" of $35,000 is made in the will of the late Grace R. Shaw who died last Sunday. The fund, which is to be used to give Harvard graduates a chance to travel abroad, but which is not based on scholarship qualifications, is to be largely increased if certain other bequests fail...
America has never seen a great missionary exposition, but from today until Saturday, May 20. "The World in Boston" will present an elaborate and life like portrayal of the great missionary movements of the day at home and abroad. In every sense "The World in Boston" will be unique, for it promises to visitors a panoramic scene of five continents. The whole of Mechanics Building in Boston will be occupied with exact reproductions of life and customs in all countries of the world...
...foreigner selects his university with an eye to considerations which do not affect the average American student. Family tradition places no obligation upon him; clubs and athletics offer no special inducement; particular excellence of instruction is merely an added desideratum. The foreigner here, like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would...
Nathaniel Thayer, a descendant of the family which in 1630 settled at Braintree, was born in Boston, June 13, 1851. After graduating from Harvard in 1871 he travelled abroad for two years, returning in 1874 to associate in business with his father, who five years previously had given Thayer Hall to the College. He was made president of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad Company in 1876 and since then has been the guiding power in numerous banks, railroads and business concerns. He was also a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1877 and again...