Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building tonight at 8.15 o'clock. The subject of her lecture will be "Some Musical Analogies in Modern "Poetry," with Illustrations from her own works and those of other poets, and the proceeds of the meeting will be for the benefit of the American. Friends of Music in France. Tickets at $1.50, $1.00, and fifty cents will be on sale during the day at Amee Brothers' Bookstone. Harvard Square, and at Herrick's in Boston...
First of all, the Japanese students and other foreign students can rarely arrange to come here with the same opportunities of securing rooms in college dormitories as American students have. The foreign student, therefore, rooms in Boston or no some side street in Cambridge, with no particular opportunity for continuous association with American students; and even boards in restaurants and private houses that provide very limited opportunities for English conversation. His religion often interferes with his attendance at Phillips Brooks House. Though the Cosmopolitan Club does all that it can for him, at the meetings of that organization he becomes...
Then, too, the Japanese, Spanish American, Chinese, and even European students are peculiarly sensitive and retiring. Obliged to be unusually studious in their native countries, so that their minds are developed often to a pitch of intelligence and interest which would amaze native born students, they get little opportunity to exchange their ideas for what is of peculiar value to them; namely, opportunity for friendly association and converse with American students...
...foreign student has difficulty in understanding his lecturers; yet he must be graded according to the American standard. He is practically cut off from association with American students, and consequently from any advantageous opportunity to change his reading knowledge of English into the necessary speaking and hearing knowledge. Thus the chief obstacle between the interesting in body of foreign students and the American students, who really feel very friendly toward them, is simply this ignorance of spoken English on the part of foreigners and this lack of continuous helpful association between...
dent, so that a man arriving here--say--from Japan just before the College opens in the fall would have no difficulty in securing quarters among the American students. And every group of men reserving a table at the College Commons should invite some foreign student to sit at their table...