Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Andre Tardieu, who will deliver the lectures this year, is honorary first secretary of embassy as well as chief of the foreign political bureau of the "Temps." In 1895 he was the first to be taken into the upper normal department of the Ecole at Paris. However, being attracted by the problems of diplomacy, M. Tardien gave up this appointment, and a year and a half later received the position of attache to the French embassy at Berlin, where he became acquainted with a number of leading German diplomats...
...return to Paris, M. Tardieu was made secretary to M. Hanotaux, and attache to the cabinet of M. Delease. In this double capacity, he had the opportunity of following closely the Fashoda affair. He was then given the rank of secretary of embassy, and left the department of foreign affairs for three years to take up the position of secretary to the president of the Council of Ministers. This was a valuable chance to become acquainted with French political circles during a difficult and crucial period. In 1902 he accompanied M. Lonbet, President of the Republic to St. Petersburg...
Since that time, M. Tardieu, who left the active diplomatic service with the rank of first secretary of embassy, has devoted himself to the study of contemporary history and politics. In 1904 he succeeded to the position of writer on foreign affairs for the "Temps." He likewise published in that paper a number of instructive articles on politics, under the assumed name of George Villiers, and also assisted in editing the Revue des Deux Mondes...
...Harvard Mission has received from Rev. George P. Knapp '87, a foreign missionary located in Harpoot, Turkey, a collection of foreign coins, mostly of Turkish and Greek countries, which have been put on sale at Phillips Brooks House for the benefit of the mission. In the collection as originally received there were 188 specimens, representing 113 different dynasties. The University library was given its choice of the coins to add to its collections, and the 75 which remained have been returned to Phillips Brooks House where they are now on sale. The coins are of different metals, the finest being...
Professor Schofield has been graciously entertained in German society, and recently dined with the Emperor and the Empress. A short time ago he received 250 guests, including members of the diplomatic and artistic circles, at a musical at which many foreign ambassadors were present. It is expected that he will arrive in Boston on February...