Word: british
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the Union will have the privilege of listening to the British Ambassador to the United States, Viscount Grey, on Monday evening at 8.30 o'clock. President Lowell will make the opening speech and will introduce Lord Grey, while Governor Coolidge, who is planning to attend the meeting, is also expected to say a few words. All members of the Union are invited and will be admitted on showing their membership cards, but, owing to the limited seating capacity of the Living Room, it will be impossible to admit any except members...
...diplomatic service. He was educated at Balliol College, and soon after graduation was appointed an under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he served until 1895. From 1905-16 he acted as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in this position had practically the entire charge of British Foreign Affairs during the trying days of the fall of 1914, immediately preceding and following England's entrance into the war. He resigned his office in 1916, and thereafter has been a Member of Parliament...
...London there is a little colony of Harvard men gathered together for the purpose of learning. All of them are holders of graduate fellowships of one sort and another, and their days are spent in the British Museum and in the Public Records Office. The CRIMSON has recently received from one of them, Samuel Resneck '19, a letter telling of their life...
...meantime, should any venture some Harvard man come to London during the next few months, he will be sure to receive a hearty welcome from all of us. We are to be found daily except Sundays in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Rows N and H are our particular headquarters, and I speak for us all in welcoming any visitor to our circle...
Viscount Grey, who has but recently been appointed United States Ambassador, was actively engaged in British Governmental service during the war, being Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1905-1916. During the war he was created first Viscount of Fallodon...