Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from all candidates for a degree a certain number of courses aggregating one-half or two-thirds of the whole. Every student who intends to go into business should know something about general economics, accounting, finance and business organization, and should also have a command of some of the foreign languages. When, however, the foundation has been laid in this way, students are allowed a free choice, subject to the condition, however, that their course be approved by the Director. The Director of the School is presumed to have a personal acquaintance with each of the students...
...also practical courses where each student will have an opportunity of intimate personal contact with business life. Arrangements have already been made with the National City Bank whereby a certain number of students will be afforded an opportunity to prepare themselves for the service of the Bank in foreign fields. It is proposed to broaden and generalize these opportunities so that ultimately every student will be enabled and expected to do some field work in that particular department of business life in which he is especially interested. In almost every phase of 'big business' in New York today the need...
...opportunities for the practical study of the arts of public sanitation offered to students of the School for Health Officers are exceptional. The city of Boston is an important port of entry for foreign and domestic shipping and for immigration, and has fifty or more separate and independent municipalities in its immediate vicinity, while the state of Massachusetts is a community which has long been recognized as standing in the forefront of American commonwealths in almost all aspects of the science and practice of public health. To the advantages of location are added the resources of the University...
Canada leads in the number of foreign men in the University, but her proximity accounts for that. Second to her, and really first of countries of the other hemisphere, is China, whose large number indicates the seriousness with which that country is pursuing education. The enrolment of the nations having the largest number of students is given below: South Africa, 19 Canada, 198 China, 97 England, 38 Germany, 27 India, 21 Japan, 47 Turkey...
...natural that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences should have the most, but the enrolment in the College is remarkable. That 7 per cent. of the students in the College this year should come from foreign countries is very significant...