Word: americans
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...fourth of the series of six Hyde lectures by Rev. Otis Cary, D.D., missionary of the American board of commissioners in Kyoto, Japan, will be given in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The general topic of this course is "The History of Christianity in Japan"; and the special subject of today's lecture will be "The Beginning of Protestant and the Re-establishment of Roman Catholic Missions." These lectures are open to the public, as well as to all members of the University...
...from which he was admitted to the Bar in 1869. For two years, while in the Law School, he was private secretary to Charles Sumner. From 1877-78 and for the last 16 years, he has been an Overseer of Harvard College. He was also editor of the North American Review for nine years. Mr. Storey was president of the American Bar Association for the year 1896. Since 1905 he has been president of the Anti-Imperialist League. He has written a "Life of Charles Sumner" in the Statesman series, and various other political pamphlets and addresses...
...held at the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, last evening. Mr. Edwin D. Meed, president of the club, introduced the speakers. The first speaker was Professor F. G. Peabody '69. He emphasized the fact that the plan of the interchange of professors has passed the experimental stage. Now two American professors, one from Harvard and one from Columbia, are lecturing in Berlin. The supplementing of the interchange of professors by an interchange of students is gratifying. By agreement with the French and Prussian ministers of education, Harvard University will remit tuition of five students of each country during a period...
...said substantially that in these days of liberal views it is necessary that we have interchange of both professors and students. It has become an essential part of a liberal education to visit other countries and to become members of foreign universities. By the new system ideas of American freedom and of German veneration are exchanged. The American tariff may not be revised, but a new generation of scholars will arise which will look upon such artificial barriers as ridiculous...
After he was graduated from Harvard, Mr. Storey became private secretary to Charles Sumner in 1867 and kept the position until 1869, when he was admitted to the bar. He was editor of the American Law Review for several years; and since 1892 he has been an Overseer of Harvard College. He has written a "Life of Charles Sumner" and several works on political subjects...