Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago. With the demobilization of allied armies since the armistice and the liberal granting of furloughs and leaves to those not yet discharged from service, the organization has grown into a recognized and thoroughly representative body. The objects of the Congress may be summed up in that characteristic American phrase of which Capt. Ian Hay Beith could not rob us even by adoption, namely, "Getting Together...
...American University Union has proved, and will prove in the future, a great institution for the crystalizing of educational ideas of our country and France. There are also the Rhodes Scholarships which enable Americans to obtain the benefits of Oxford University, and recently the Harvard Club of New York has created a reciprocal privilege through the Choate Scholarship, that enables Englishmen to become educated in American universities...
Among the most recent advances is the creation of the American Expeditionary Force Schools in France and England. In addition to the benefits derived from these institutions by the army, the countries in which the schools are established receive the advantage of the educational stimulus of foreign blood and foreign blood and foreign ideas. A pertinent manifestation of the international education is the exodus of soldiers of the American army to the college from which John Harvard came, for already many men who have had two years of American college experience have permanently enrolled in Emanuel College in England...
...nature of education cannot be changed by the action of any American College Boards", concludes Mr. Chapman, "and it is certain that if we are hereafter to produce poets, writers, and thinkers, their power will be drawn from the same sources that have fed the poets, the writers and the thinkers of the past. It cannot be otherwise...
Professor Albert Cary Coolidge '87 head of the American Commission a Vienna, is on his way to Paris where he will submit the report of the commission and then leave for America. Professor Coolidge was selected, together with Dean C. H. Haskins, Professor R. F. Dixon '97 and Assistant Professor Loren '06 to furnish the American delegation a the Peach Conference with expert information in regard to conditions in the several countries. Before becoming a instructor in the University he was secretary to the American Legation a Vienna, and also to the legation a Petrograd...