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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...continued today at 9.15 o'clock according to the following schedule: Examinations Today. Chemistry 22, Emerson D Economics 34, Emerson D Engineering Sciences 3: Allen to McLean (inclusive), Pierce 302 Moore to Young (inclusive), Pierce 307 Fine Arts 10a, Robinson Hall French 3. Emerson D Government 23, Emerson D Latin E hf., Emerson D Music 1, Emerson J Psychology 10, Emerson J Spanish 7 hf., Emerson J Examinations Tomorrow. Astronomy 2a, Astron. Lab. Botany 3, Bot. Mus. 13b Chemistry 5: Bailey to Loomis (inclusive), Sever 5 Negus to Williams (inclusive), Sever 6 Comp. Literature 30, Sever 11 Economics 2a: Adams...
...first place, Dr. Klein said, now is the most opportune time to initiate a regular exchange of lecturers. There is a considerable number of distinguished Latin Americans who would be instructing in France and Germany, were it not for the war. If we should begin our reciprocal visits now, a larger number of the southern continent's distinguished educators would come to the United States than when conditions abroad were normal...
...years the lecturers which these universities have sent to South America--at very indefinite intervals, to be sure--have given the well-informed classes their only knowledge of our university activity. Professor Bingham of Yale, Professor Rowe of Pennsylvania, and Professor Shepherd of Columbia are the men whom the Latin Americans know. Harvard has sent very few men, and these few have gone to investigate and collect, not to lecture. Consequently, outside of a few of the larger educational institutions, Harvard is unknown. "At one of the smaller universities," said Dr. Klein, "I was asked if Harvard was a branch...
...Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, at Rio de Janeiro--are Harvard men. Again, Professor Lima's visits to Cambridge have been useful in promoting the proposed system. As an additional step the University is contemplating the issue of an edition of the regular catalogue in Spanish for distribution in Latin America. But the University's greatest chance to rise rapidly in reputation and position among the South Americans lies in being the first institution of the United States to adopt the plan of regular inter-American professorial exchanges...
...exchange professorships are less obvious at present than the equally vital practical advantages. Our constantly growing international relations will be followed by visits from scholars of every corner of the world. The system, with South America as elsewhere, is inevitable. And a start should be made while the Latin professors, who have in the past looked to Europe for fresh ideas and for visiting lectureships, are still unaccustomed to the conditions caused by the war, and are not settled in their present necessity of staying at home for all of their research work...