Word: foreign
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Aside from the field which it opens, this club should be able to accomplish much in the way of bringing foreigners into closer touch with the leading men in their classes. At present, the foreign element, with a few exceptions, occupy an isolated position, not on account of their nationality, but because there is little to make them acquainted with their classmates...
Plans have been nearly completed for a Cosmopolitan Club to be formed of foreign students in the University. The general plan of the club was suggested by Mr. H. W. Foote '97 in a letter to the Harvard Bulletin in which he describes the club at the University of Michigan which he was instrumental in forming...
...Andre Tardieu, foreign editor of the Paris "Temps," and an acknowledged authority on French and international politics, has been chosen to deliver the Hyde lectures this year. His subject will be "The Modern and Foreign Politics of France and Europe." The lectures will be given in February under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, but the dates and subjects of the separate lectures have not yet been announced. Mr. Tardieu is well known throughout Europe as a writer of books and articles on international politics. He has also held an important office under the French government as Governor...
Only within the last 30 years, said Mr. Sargent, have we come to realize that we are a nation of immigrants, for there are very few of us whose ancestors did not come from a foreign country. Until recently the greater part of our immigrants have been the hard-working, law-abiding people of Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, who have become assimilated with us as an important part of our nation. Lately, however, large numbers of Italians, Hungarians, and Russian Jews have become to this country; but we need not be alarmed, provided they are put to work...
...Episcopal Church from schools and colleges of the United States and Canada is to promote in each institution greater efficiency in religious work, to stimulate a feeling of closer friendship between the institutions, and to present in an inspiring form the work of the Church in home and foreign fields...