Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a decision of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet to turn over to the Foreign Students Committee the use of the Ralph Hamilton Shepard Memorial Room in the Phillips Brooks House, the executive committee of the Council plans to redecorate the room and establish headquarters there for foreign students. The rearrangement of the room will be made with a view to embodying all the qualities of a club: Periodicals and books from most of the foreign nations will be kept on the shelves, and tea will be served on certain afternoons. While taking this step in realizing a headquarters...
...committee set Wednesday December 18 at 8 o'clock as the date for the first meeting of the foreign students. This gathering will be of informal nature and it is expected that a distinguished speaker whose name is to be announced at a later date will give a short address during the evening. Refreshments will be served. It was determined that an informal plan such as this will be followed as a change from the more formal round table discussions of last year...
...announcement of the new plans of the International Council cannot fail to be of interest to those who are concerned with the task of giving the foreign students of the University a pleasant introduction to Harvard life. In the two years of its existence the Council has striven to offer those men opportunities for a social intercourse which they might otherwise find difficult to get in their new environment. In this capacity it has done much to break down the feeling of isolation and strangeness with which the foreign student is confronted...
...plans fill a gap which the present organization of the Council left open. It has been rightfully felt that the round table discussions and entertainments of the last two years have not been adequate to creating the more intimate relationship between foreign and native-born students which a less formal arrangement might afford...
...provision of a headquarters for foreign men and their friends which will be always at their disposal is calculated to supply the need of such men for a common meeting ground for social contacts. Its permanent and informal character will allow an easier interchange than is at present possible in the sporadic formal entertainments of the Council...