Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There flourished last year a society, known to some as a monohippic institution, and to others as the Harvard Shakspere Club, which, after winning for itself a brief but more than cosmopolitan renown, quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression...
...company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon...
...pleasantest features of the profession are the chances of seeing men. The engineer is cosmopolitan. He will be employed more abroad in the future. Construction, too, is next to what is pleasantest of all things, creation. Variety and the element of uncertainty in his work are also attractive. There is no science which the engineer does not lay under tribute. He has as a result of his work, that he is contributing to the general prosperity, and is making the lives of his fellow men happier, safer and more profitable to themselves. The pecuniary rewards of the profession are very...
...article which we printed on Friday last very effectively answers Yale's boast that she is more cosmopolitan than Harvard; that she is the national college, while Harvard is an affair of Boston, or at most of Massachusetts. It is furthermore shown that Harvard stands better in her own state than Yale in hers; for in twelve years the attendance here from Massachusetts has increased twenty-seven per cent., while Yale's increase from Connecticut has been only nine per cent. These figures alone are very gratifying. But we are still more pleased to find that the number from other...
...twelve years the undergraduate attendance from Massachusetts has increased 27 per cent., or from 475 to 606. Yale, too, shows a small increase - less than 9 per cent. - in the Connecticut contingent. It used to be the old cry that Harvard was a local institution, while Yale was cosmopolitan. In 1873 no less than 62 1-2 per cent. of the students that flocked to Yale, came from the West, the South, and the Middle States. Today the proportion is about the same. But Harvard has in the same period increased its proportion of foreigners to New Englanders from...