Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell visited in Paris, France, early in July to discuss with the authorities of the Sorbonne and the Ministry of Education, questions of cultural exchanges between America and France. The University Corporation appointed President Lowell, Robert Bacon, formerly ambassador to France, and Professor A. C. Coolidge of the department of History as a committee for the maintenance of relations with French Universities, and this committee empowered President Lowell to act in its behalf during his stay in France...
...Romuld Naon, Ambassador to the United States from Argentine Republic, conferred with President Lowell recently in regard to the forwarding of interest in that country among American universities. Seven or eight graduates of Argentine colleges will come each year to Harvard and other universities to study in the Graduate Schools. President Lowell announced that a prize of $100 will be awarded by the University for the best essay on some subject connected with the Argentine Republic. The particulars of the competition will be announced later...
...article of very great interest is the second half of the oration of the French Ambassador delivered before Phi Beta Kappa last June on Rochambeau in America. The address not only shows how much America was indebted to France for the final victory in the Revolution, but draws a vivid picture of the fighters of those days as living men and not heroic statues on the village green...
...announcement has just been made by the State Department that Larz Anderson '88, the donor of the new Stadium bridge, has been appointed ambassador to Japan by President Taft. It has just been learned that Mr. Anderson, whose name was a short time age submitted to Tokic, will be satisfactory to the Japanese government. Mr. Anderson has had several previous positions in the diplomatic service, being at present minister to Belgium...
...business meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society held yesterday morning the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, Hon. Francis Joseph Swayze '79; vice-president, Dean Briggs; secretary, W. C. Lane '81; treasurer, R. H. Dana '01. The following were also elected to honorary membership: Ambassador Jusserand, LL.D. '07, who delivered the Phi Beta Kappa Day oration in Sanders Theatre yesterday morning, J. J. Chapman '84. Dr. Reginald Fitz '06, D. G. Field '07, and Professor Eugene Wambaugh...