Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members. The original faculty, the whole corps of instructors, in the good old Colony times and beginnings of King's College, was its first President, Dr. Samuel Johnson, and his undergraduates were eight. In our own time Columbia has grown gigantically. She is become a great national and cosmopolitan university...
...Cosmopolitan Club will meet in its rooms at 7-8 Holyoke House this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Kirsopp Lake will speak on "Some Problems of the Future." The meetings of the club are usually held on Friday evenings. All members of the University are invited...
From the Harvard CRIMSON: "Harvard is perhaps the most cosmopolitan of American universities, and the number of foreign students has increased rapidly in the last few years. In 1912-13 there were 134 students from 29 foreign countries; two years ago 149 from 31 countries, and last year 185 from 38 countries." Harvard's cosmopolitanism certainly is not measured entirely by the number of foreign students who matriculate there. If it were, we might present a few of our statistics: During the terms of 1913-14 there were 264 foreign students representing 46 foreign countries, and during 1915-16, despite...
...prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia's straw-vote should be considered more seriously as a forecast of the actual result than the large majorities of other Eastern colleges where obvious influences explain the Hughes victories. Whether the nation's decision leases the Majority of Harvard...
...point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare...