Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their utmost to accomplish a better mutual understanding between the two nations." This was the point made by Mr. C. D. Hurrey, Secretary for the National Committee on Friendly Relations, in his address last evening to the Chinese students of Greater Boston at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House. "It would be a very good thing if Chinese students in this country would contribute to our magazines and correct some of the wrong, but popular, impressions in regard to their native land...
...should like to correct the passage in the CRIMSON'S account of my address before the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday evening, in which I am represented as having spoken of the Russian Socialist parties as "led by men who for the most part are not honest fighters for an ideal, but German agents, who wish to stop the war and incourage a social revolution." Naturally, I made no such sweeping and unjustifiable indictment. But I did use substantially the words cited above with regard to some leaders of the most radical wing of the Russian Socialists, the Bolsheviki. This statement...
...plans of the Cosmopolitan Club to make foreign students feel at home in Cambridge show a progressive policy. It is the intention not only to increase the friendship between men from other lands, but also to enlarge their knowledge of Cambridge and the vicinity. A natural tendency for foreigners in a new country is to group together. The Club now aims to make this group more sociable and to link it with American activities. We believe that this will benefit the club as well as its members from afar. Such action shows a commendable determination to make this institution more...
...come here from other continents. What these men think of Harvard, and what impressions of this college they give to their peoples depends much on how they are received here. If the welcome is hearty and they are convinced that we want them, our reputation will gain. The Cosmopolitan Club is assuming the pleasurable task of proving this. The function of the club is more than to receive strangers and to entertain them it is to spread abroad the fact that Harvard wishes to be cosmopolitan...
...Catastrophe is the catch word in Russia at the present time," said Dr. R. H. Lord '06, at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House last evening, as he was describing the impressions he gained of the Russian situation during his stay there last summer. "The country was on the very verge of political ruin and economic collapse. The army wouldn't fight, the workmen wouldn't work, and the government couldn't govern. The crisis was caused by four general conditions: the antagonism between the socialist parties and the bourgeoisie; the total paralysis of the government...