Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor men graduates of British universities announced in London as having been awarded Commonwealth Fund Fellowships to come to the United States next fall for two year's study in American universities four will come to Harvard. They are James McAlston, from the University of Edinburg; to study bacteriology; Frederick N. W. Bateson, from Oxford University, to study 18th century drama; Reginald Jackson, from the University of Sidney, and Oxford, to study philosophy; and Eric Francis Nash, Oxford, to study economics...
This number exceeds that enrolling in any other American university in 1927 Besides these, three of the 20 honor men will come to Columbia, two each to Princeton, Pennsylvania, and John Hopkins, and the remaining seven will go to seven different American educational institutions. Three women students have this year been awarded fellowships and two will go to Yale and one to Clark University...
Above all other American universities Harvard has consistently been accorded both the opportunity and the honor of entertaining foreign students. During the three years existence of the British Commonwealth Fund, sixty-three Fellows have been sent to this country to study, ten of whom have elected to take up their academic pursuits in Cambridge. Next year four out of the twenty newly appointed Fellows will be in residence at the University for a period of two years...
...Confirming our conversation of this morning, I have the honor to inform you that I am authorized to say that the President of the United States intends to accept the request of the [Diaz] Nicaraguan Government to supervise the elections of 1928; that retention of President Diaz during the remainder of his term is regarded as necessary for the proper and successful conduct of such elections, and that the forces of the United States will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down, including the Government's and to disarm forcibly those...
After a farewell luncheon at the Waldorf, the University Afloat dispersed, its students to see if their home universities in 43 states would honor their sea-credits for study since last September; its faculty and management to prepare for the Ryndam's second cruise, starting next September...