Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this address, which will be essentially on the subject of foreign missions, Mr. Foster will speak from information gathered during his extended diplomatic services abroad. Mr. Foster, who was Secretary of State during the administration of President Harrison, has been United States ambassador to China, Mexico and Russia; and, at the invitation of both Japan and China, concluded the treaty which closed the recent war between these countries. He was United States consul before the arbitration board in London which settled in our favor the late Alaskan boundary dispute...
...been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good step forward...
...matrices will be the first deposits made in the phonographic archives which are to be kept at Harvard University, and in the Congressional Library and the National Museum at Washington. The Emperor, on the application of Professor Edward W. Scripture, the psychologist of Yale University, through the United States ambassador here, has given two examples of his voice for permanent preservation. The first cylinder, made especially for Harvard University, contains observations on Frederick the Great. The other was a short disquisition on 'Fortitude in Pain.' These archives of voices are said to be the first instituted for historical purposes...
...Century; H. Bingham, Curator of South American History and Literature; E. H. Wells '97, Curator of Modern English Literature. Mr. Gay is a non-resident member of the Graduate School and served the Library last year by buying large numbers of Italian books in Rome, with money provided by Ambassador G. von L. Meyer '79. In addition to this he supplemented Mr. Meyer's gift with many volumes and pamphlets from his own library. The Library is indebted to Mr. Wells for having collected from friends several hundred dollars to be used for the purchase of English literature...
...clock the opening exercises will take place in the New Lecture Hall. Professor H. C. G. von Jagemann will be the presiding officer, and the speakers will be as follows: Baron von Bussche- Haddenhausen, First Secretary of the German Embassy at Washington, who in the absence of Ambassador Baron von Sternberg, will present Emperor William's gifts; President Eliot, who will accept the gifts in the name of the University; Professor Kuno Francke, who will respond for the Germanic Museum; Hon. Carl Schurz, as president of the Germanic Museum Association; Mr. Edward Robinson, as curator of the Boston Museum...