Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only to increase the friendship between men from other lands, but also to enlarge their knowledge of Cambridge and the vicinity. A natural tendency for foreigners in a new country is to group together. The Club now aims to make this group more sociable and to link it with American activities. We believe that this will benefit the club as well as its members from afar. Such action shows a commendable determination to make this institution more serviceable and foreign students more at home...
...Montt, Honorary Consul from Chile; the next speaker, described the life of Latin American students, contrasting the college spirit there to the American college spirit, and showing the progress of the Y. M. C. A. in South America...
...rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving in discipline and in effectiveness, it received during the following year, as a merited boon, the able corps of French officers who came to supplement and reinform the instruction already being provided by competent American officers. So prepared, many of its members were gladly received at the first regular Plattsburg officers' training camps opened this spring. Others in great number, with recruits from the other colleges and from all walks of life, enlisted for the intensive period of summer training which was not permitted to lead...
...manoeuvre ground at Fresh Pond illustrations of the actual tactics employed in battle as battles are fought today on the West front. It is even probable that the review enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker in which the lately revised American company organization has been used not merely for the call of the roster and for close-order drill but also as basis for the deployment and actual tactics of troops on the battlefield. The Harvard Regiment continues, and it continues progressive. --Boston Transcript...
There is now on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum a collection of pencil drawings by Kenneth John Conant '15, Rogers Travelling Fellow from the University at the American Academy in Rome. The series consists of 73 drawings, chiefly of street scenes, and notable buildings in Rome and Florence. Sketches of the Temple of Concord in Sicily are particularly well drawn. The only large pictures in the collection are two drawings of designs for the facade of St. Peter's in Rome. These have already been reproduced with comments in the American Architectural Magazine for August. The sketches will...