Word: local
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brooks House. For the social worker such a conference is invaluable. The comparative experiences elicited, the stimulative effect of formal exposition and open discussion are indispensable aids in such work, as those men realize who participated in last year's conference. Harvard does a very honorable share of the local improvement work. To the perpetuation of this work and, if possible, to an improvement of its quality, the meeting tonight can add very largely...
...plan of entrance examinations, the exchange professorships, all have their common purpose, the spread of Harvard's influence and the broadening of Harvard's horizon. The immediate and quite commendable object of the Territorial Clubs is to promote social intercourse and friendship between acquaintances coming from the same locality. But by this very furthering of acquaintance between men from the same general region, they serve at the same time another and more ultimate purpose--namely; as the first step towards the gathering up of all the men of a given city or state after graduation into a local Harvard...
...return and explain the enterprise here, Dr. Henry S. Houghton, of Johns Hopkins, was made dean in his place. Harvard is represented by four men, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Oregon, California, Dublin, and Copenhagen, one each. As many more institutions of learning, here and abroad, are represented on the local advisory board, which is composed of Americans, Europeans, and Chinese. The purposes of the institution are: (1) To teach modern medicine and surgery to Chinese students; (2) to co-operate with the Chinese Government in inaugurating a greatly needed hygienic reform; (3) to study particularly the diseases of the Orient...
...signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material lies in the desks and attics in the "down East" States. The Commission has been very careful to make clear the point that it is not seeking to draw exceptional local material away from those points of which it is more interpretive, but is rather interested in securing typical material and that relating to the larger inter-state and national fields, such as material for the study of the development of western transportation and the great hegira of the Fortyniners...
...Graduate School of Medicine has recently adopted a plan which gives good promise of increasing the usefulness of the School to local practising physicians. It has hitherto been possible for regular students of the Medical School to purchase coupons to be used for admission to separate lectures and clinics enabling them "to exercise a wider choice and to secure greater elasticity in their plans for study." Now this opportunity is extended to graduates of recognized medical schools. One of the coupons may be applied to subscribing for the "Monthly Announcement of the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine," a publication which...