Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student guides and plenty of them are needed. The college has not lacked them in the past and should not now, especially when the rate of pay has been raised. A man who acts as guide assumes a responsibility. He should be able to interpret Harvard life to a stranger--not only by telling about the ages and uses of the buildings, but by giving him first-hand the part of the college life which can't be put into books. Being a Harvard student is not the only necessary qualification. A guide not only needs to learn "outside facts...
...front. Many Americans have no friends abroad with whom they can spend their leaves-of-absence, and since they are unable, unlike English-men to return home, any opportunity to breathe again a college atmosphere is certain to be eagerly sought. In a country where everyone is a stranger, a familiar environment helps to make the man from away feel more at home...
...does not surprise us to learn that the general uneasiness and unsettlement of working habits which prevailed in the College last spring, during the early months of the war, appears to be giving place to a steadier gait. It would be far stranger if the College community failed to reflect the spirit in which many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated...
This is the great age of the world. There have been more far-reaching events in history that this revelation of the nations. There have been stranger events in history than this revolution of more strange and far-reaching. There have been longer wars and more better wars; but never a war in which as many men have struggled and so many died...
...Stranger" has been written by Miss Leonore Loveman, who was formerly a student in Professor Baker's English 47. In three acts, the plot concerns the hostility of ancient customs in Hungary to American ideals, the former represented in the hero and the latter in the American heroine. The action throughout the play takes place in Hungary, and inasmuch as Miss Loveman, the author, is a native of Hungary, she is well informed as to the traditions and mode of life of the people in that land...