Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After an absence of nearly a month, President Lowell returned to the University yesterday from his tour of the United States in behalf of the League of Nation. During this trip he was a speaker at a series of nine congresses for this League to Enforce Peace. The party which made the tour also included ex-President William Howard Taft; James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany; Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War; and other prominent...
During the past year the University has been stricken again and again by the loss of many of its most able sons, not only in the armies of the nation, but also among those who carried on the work of the country and the College throughout the critical period. Few of this latter group merited more the respect and admiration of both graduates and undergraduates than Frederic Schenck '09, whose death we today record with sorrow...
...same is true for all our foreign students--have a determining influence upon the attitude of their native country toward America. We have every reason to be grateful for Mr. Matsuno's assurance that "it is the Japanese student educated in the University who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals." The surest road to lasting international friendship is for the future leaders of the great nations to develop an attitude of mutual trust before assuming responsibility for the opinions of their fellow-countrymen. In this way prejudices and barriers may be destroyed...
Harvard is doing a great work for us. We appreciate it. And it is largely the Japanese student who returns to his country, who will stimulate and foster international interest and friendship. It is the Japanese student educated in the University, who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals. KEIZO MATSUNO...
...greater part of the "Memorial Gymnasium Number" of the "Illustrated" is devoted to a plea for the erection of a great, modern gymnasium as a memorial to those Harvard men who died in the service of the nation. Although the high purpose of the proposal can not be doubted, and although the benefits to the University would probably be great if the plan were carried out, there are one or two points in the case which merit investigation...