Word: canada
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Saturday night President Eliot spoke to the members of the Harvard Canadian Club and their guests from the British Empire Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He paid a glowing tribute to the splendid work being done by the Ministry of Labor in Canada, under the direction of Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, a former member of the club, and a former student in the Economics Department of Harvard. The recent legislation of the Canadian Parliament for the settlement of individual disputes was designated by the speaker as "the best in the world." Its superlorities in contrast with...
...concluding his address he asked two questions of his audience: Why do you come to Harvard? Do you intend to return to Canada to work? The answers given by several men indicated that undergraduates as well as graduate students were attracted to Harvard by the reputation of its teaching staff; that Canadians, when their academic studies are completed, intend to return home...
...twenty-first annual convention of the Church Students' Missionary Association will be held at the General Theological Seminary, New York, beginning today and lasting until Sunday. The purpose of the convention in bringing together members of the Episcopal Church from schools and colleges of the United States and Canada is to promote in each institution greater efficiency in religious work, to stimulate a feeling of closer friendship between the institutions, and to present in an inspiring form the work of the Church in home and foreign fields...
...spring of 1906. Mr. Stefansson was a member of the Mikkelson expedition, and was charged with the commission of collecting archaeological and ethnological material for the Peabody Museum. The ship on which the party sailed was wrecked in the ice and they were forced to return overland through Northern Canada...
...Bell received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1904, as the result of work in the graduate School. His professional life has been in the geological department of the British government, first with the geological survey in Canada, and later in New Zealand. In his present position he has had exceptions opportunities for exploring the mountainous regions of New Zealand...