Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University, which is leading in developing the study of South American affairs, is the fortunate recipient of six hundred volumes relating to the history and literature of Brazil. They are the gift of the Honorable Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, American Ambassador to that country. Such a gain in resources forms an added reason why more undergraduates should turn their attention to this profitable field for study and service...
...This year is the first time that the Institute has held its sessions in Boston. The first official meeting will take place tomorrow and will be followed by a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston. The Institute presents a medal each year to the greatest and most productive American in some one branch of the Fine Arts. Each of the arts is taken in turn in successive years and nine years are thus necessary for the complete cycle. This year the medal will be awarded to the author who has done most for fiction in the United States...
...library has received from Rio de Janiero six hundred volumes of Brazilian history and literature. These books were selected by Dr. Julius Klein, Ph.D. '13, Instructor in History, who is traveling in South America, and are a gift to the library from the Hon. Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, American Ambassador to Brazil. It was Mr. Morgan's object in making this gift to encourage the study of South American affairs at Harvard, and in particular to commemorate the courses in these subjects which are given this year by his friend, Dr. Oliveira Lima...
...will be the guest of the Poetry Society at a meeting to be held in the Advocate Sanotum on the third floor of the Union tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Frost will read from his works. He is known as one of the best of the younger American poets, his work having been highly praised both in England and America. This is the first of a series of readings and talks to be given under the auspices of the society by prominent poets and critics...
President Lowell accompanied the second Harvard Medical Unit which left Boston yesterday afternoon for New York, to sail at noon today on the "Noordam" of the Holland-American line for hospital service somewhere in the war zone. The new medical unit, under the leadership of David Cheever, Jr., '97, M.D. '01, of the Medical School, will arrive at Falmouth, England, within a week, and before being assigned to work by the British War Office will travel through Scotland and England. This unit is expected to resume the work of the first unit in a British base hospital on the French...