Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Julius Klein, instructor in history, who has just returned from extensive travels in South America as a Sheldon Travelling Fellow in Spanish-American History and Economics, stated in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that an exchange of professors between Harvard and the South American Universities is highly desirable and that it would be a great advantage if Harvard were the first university in the United States to adopt this plan, which he considers inevitable...
...especially important that Harvard should be the first North American university to enter the new field. For, though it may seem peculiar, Harvard is practically unknown in South America, outside of the highest educational circles. As a rule, people of high standing in general public affairs either do not know of the University's existence, or else have vague ideas concerning it. To them, education in the United States connotes Columbia, Yale, and Pennsylvania; for in past years the lecturers which these universities have sent to South America--at very indefinite intervals, to be sure--have given the well-informed...
...Cambridge have been useful in promoting the proposed system. As an additional step the University is contemplating the issue of an edition of the regular catalogue in Spanish for distribution in Latin America. But the University's greatest chance to rise rapidly in reputation and position among the South Americans lies in being the first institution of the United States to adopt the plan of regular inter-American professorial exchanges...
...public meeting to consider "The Duty of America in the Present War" will be held in Tremont Temple, Boston, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Former Ambassador to France, Mr. Robert Bacon '80, will speak on "The International Obligations of the American People." Mr. H. Parker '78 will present a set of resolutions, expressing disapproval of the proposed embargo on the exportation of munitions. Professor W. E. Hocking '01 and Professor Josiah Royce hon. '01, both of the Philosophy Department, will discuss the moral side of the question of sending arms to the Allies. They will be followed...
This meeting will be held under the auspices of the "American Rights Committee," an organization which numbers among its members many graduates of the University. Its aim is to arouse interest in the movement which is going on all over the country to bring pressure to bear upon Congress to prevent the passage of the munitions embargo measure. A collection in aid of the American Ambulance in France will be taken. All members of the University are especially invited to attend...