Word: americanization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, in speaking of the work of the American University of American soldiers established in France, expressed himself as feeling that this scheme of the government to fill in the gaps made in the education of so many young Americans because of the exigencies of the war, fulfilled its purpose, judging from the satisfaction expressed by the students themselves. "Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France...
...Over 16,000 attended the different branches of the American University in France," he said. "At Beaune, where the instruction was given by American college men in the army, there were seven thousand men; in the French universities, where higher education was afforded, there were also seven thousand; finally in the English universities two thousand more were provided...
...amiss to suggest to Mr. Laski, however, that, as he is not a citizen of the United States, the amenities of the situation would seem to call for a reasonable measure of restraint in the criticism of our public officials. This is a sphere in which the average American is inclined to be very resentful of aspersion that comes from alien lips. HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN...
...Scandinavian Fellowship awarded each year to a Scandinavian student recommended by the American-Scandinavian Foundation of New York was given to Alf Melander, a first-year student in the Business School. Mr. Melander comes from Orebro, Sweden, and Studied at Upsala University. He is one of six Scandinavians who are studying Business Administration this year...
...ever written about the former President, is the latest of his many works. The author has always been closely connected with the University, taking part in many graduate activities and serving as Overseer from 1913 to 1919. In 1906 he was sent as a delegate from Harvard and the American History Association to the International History Congress at Milan. Shortly afterwards he was made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy. In 1898 he published "The History and Customs of Harvard University...