Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more fitting nor permanent memorial, of a modest but apt sort than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead in the great war, but I should be unhappy to think that the prospect of this should discourage the creation of individual memorials on a smaller scale, so priceless for their intimacy and the personal feeling to which they testify. I wish you every success in your undertaking. G. H. EDGELL...
...thoroughly in harmony with the co-operative spirit and purpose of this Congress, and we wish all success to its deliberations. Even if little of immediate practical importance is accomplished, surely a great world movement for student co-operation will have been launched, and the very launching, will have been more than worth while. When M. Jean Fuielle, General Secretary of the organization, visits Cambridge in the course of his projected tour of American colleges and universities, we are sure that Harvard men will give his plans for the closer international co-operation of college students their warmest support...
Hawker has contributed much toward world-progress in aviation; in his next attempt he will probably contribute more. But perhaps his greatest service has been purely unintentional. He has made two great kindred nations feel keenly how like they are, one to the other, in their basic love of good sportsmanship. He has brought Britain and America closer, perhaps, than ever before, thus imparting even more life and substance to the cordial and brotherly words uttered by President Wilson in London and Manchester last December...
Aside from diplomatic circles, the field that lends itself best to the establishing of friendly international relations is probably the field of education. Exchange professors between the leading universities started international educational association many years ago, and nor plans are emerging from the great melting pot of war to follow up the initial advances...
...American University Union has proved, and will prove in the future, a great institution for the crystalizing of educational ideas of our country and France. There are also the Rhodes Scholarships which enable Americans to obtain the benefits of Oxford University, and recently the Harvard Club of New York has created a reciprocal privilege through the Choate Scholarship, that enables Englishmen to become educated in American universities...