Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...France-Japanese agreement was simply a safeguard for French Indo-China, but owing to the bad French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...
...Indians and Negroes was opened in April 1868 in the old barracks of one of the military hospitals of the Civil War, with an enrollment of 15 students and two teachers. Today there are more than 60 modern buildings, 1361 students representing 35 states and territories and five foreign countries, while the corps of teachers and officers has been increased...
...purposes of the organization are to draw the foreign students more closely into the life of the University and to provide them with social opportunities and conveniences which they, as strangers, can less readily find under present conditions. With this club the University will derive more benefit than at present from the large number of students representing the manners and customs, special abilities, opinions, feelings, and points of view characteristic of many foreign countries. The large foreign contingent at Harvard is an "asset" as yet incompletely realized by the University for its own advantage...
...French representative in Morocco informed the German minister that his country was not satisfied with the condition of affairs; Berlin asked for more specific charges. The trouble quickly became complicated by the interference of the two home governments and the mistakes of M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs. Emperor William's inflammatory speech in Tangier still further aroused public opinion, so that the prospect of immediate war led Germany to begin actual preparations. At this point, Germany came to her senses, and a request for a conference was sent to France. France insisted on her special privileges...
...Cosmopolitan Club there is now a common meeting place, where the members--now two-thirds foreign and one-third American--may, with mutual benefit, be put in touch with each other. At Cornell the Cosmopolitan Club has proved its usefulness and attained the popularity it deserves. We hope and fully expect that here, where the possibilities are so great, the society, although perhaps not much in the public eye, will grow steadily in usefulness, scope and power...