Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then, in unavoidable conflicts. It seems unnecessary, however, that the Union should be placed in its present position, though the fact that the room in which it has always met, has been engaged for so many Thursdays during the remainder of this year. The Union is more cosmopolitan, so to speak, than any other society in college. Thursday evening is the only time in the week that is convenient for its meeting, inasmuch as its members represent so many, and so diverse interests. The Union has acquired, moreover, a kind of prescriptive title to Sever 11 for alternate Thursday evenings...
Harvard is the most cosmopolitan college on this continent. Almost every state in the Union is represented and many foreign countries We give below the states which send the largest number of students...
...attempts made to root out the older forms of athletics. Even Harvard indifference is no longer talked of. Very soon we may look to see the "typical" Harvard student, no longer typical, a plain ordinary youth, of passive tendencies and no interests but those most strictly proper in a cosmopolitan and general sense. What points of interest can he then present to the inquiring visitor...
...cannot but be gratifying to those who desire the spread of Harvard's influence throughout this country, and who also desire to see at Harvard the growth of a more cosmopolitan and national spirit, to observe how steadily has been the growth in numbers of students at Harvard, coming from points outside of New England, from New York, Pennsylvania and the Southern and Western states. The causes which prompt this growth are many of them indirect...
...must be said, take a very passive interest in all that concerns the college and the current of college thought. Between the icy embargo of its withered aristocracy and the nonchalant indifference of its more vital plebes, in this respect there is little to choose. Harvard University has become cosmopolitan. The city of Cambridge remains provincial...