Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday evening. Robert Woods Bliss '00, Secretary of the American Embassy acted as chairman. Dean LeBaron R. Briggs '75, now Exchange Professor at the University of Paris, spoke on America's role in the war, and Dean Charles H. Haskins made an address on the development of Franco-American friendship. Colonel J. P. Azan, former instructor in Military Science and Tactics at the University also spoke on the later subject...
...first glance the foundation of a fellowship whereby a single English student may study at the University may not seem to be of much importance. Yet, if the educated classes of England and the United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good...
...only extremely poor taste but grossly presumptive. To think that an undergraduate should take it upon himself to demand further personal sacrifice from his instructors is really preposterous. I would like to ask Mr. Wheelwright how many of his instructors have been made unfit for his friendship by their wealth. I would like to ask him further how much personal sacrifice he has made to be in the "sympathetic company and congenial surroundings" of Harvard. As far as we know the only sacrifice which Mr. Wheelwright has made has been in writing this most absurd communication. JOHN F. FULTON...
...almost double our teaching staff. Our instructors would then be delivered from the drudgery of blue-pencilling copy-books, and have leisure for that serious work by which alone an university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries...
...There is, in spite of the fearfully neglected condition of Russia," said Dr. R. M. Story '08 last night, speaking at the Phillips Brooks House, "a decided friendship for Americans, an American tradition that will never be obliterated...