Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have appeared at various times in your columns editorials and communications regarding the personnel of the University. A few men have advocated an energetic effort on the part of the University to enroll men whose homes are in more distant parts of the United States. Such efforts are in my mind very essential to Harvard whose very foundations consist in developing an individual philosophy, self-reliance, and broad-mindedness in her students...
...sending of our men to Oxford to promote international good fellowship. Would it not be well for the South and West to send men to Harvard to promote national goodfellowship. It is unnecessary to establish an elaborate system of scholarships for this purpose. That which is most needed in distant states is a close relation between the Harvard Clubs and the High Schools of their cities. There is plenty of material. It is just a matter of directing it into the proper channel...
...life. Moreover, the long vacations will give them months on the Continent to see and study Europe during this unusual period of rest and reconstruction. Surely this will create international good fellowship as no formal balance of power or league could do. We hope the time is not far distant when the French universities will extend similar opportunities...
...Harvard square via Park street and Massachusetts avenue. The price is to be regulated according to the length of the haul, five cents for a short haul, ten for a long. Let us all hope that our objectives in Boston live not live not more than a nickel distant...
...Although about 80 percent of Princeton's students come from states other than New Jersey, President Hibben believes the enrolment should be more representative of the entire nation. To this end he plans countrywide competitive scholarships which will also provide for the increased traveling expenses for those coming from distant parts of the country...