Word: cosmopolitanized
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...attempts made to root out the older forms of athletics. Even Harvard indifference is no longer talked of. Very soon we may look to see the "typical" Harvard student, no longer typical, a plain ordinary youth, of passive tendencies and no interests but those most strictly proper in a cosmopolitan and general sense. What points of interest can he then present to the inquiring visitor...
...cannot but be gratifying to those who desire the spread of Harvard's influence throughout this country, and who also desire to see at Harvard the growth of a more cosmopolitan and national spirit, to observe how steadily has been the growth in numbers of students at Harvard, coming from points outside of New England, from New York, Pennsylvania and the Southern and Western states. The causes which prompt this growth are many of them indirect...
...must be said, take a very passive interest in all that concerns the college and the current of college thought. Between the icy embargo of its withered aristocracy and the nonchalant indifference of its more vital plebes, in this respect there is little to choose. Harvard University has become cosmopolitan. The city of Cambridge remains provincial...
...facilities offered by the college to students are year by year growing more extensive. Student life itself at Harvard is rapidly growing more liberal and cosmopolitan in its character. It has already abandoned all the weaker and more puerile forms of college sports which formerly flourished under the name of hazing. The tone of student opinion at Harvard we believe is not particularly indifferent, but is energetic and full of enthusiasm. As the college itself has broadened and become more liberal so has the student mind. Within the past year we have seen a large advance in this direction...
Paris, the most cosmopolitan city in Europe, is not only renowned as being the gayest, but is also pre-eminently the greatest centre of all the different arts and professions. The professors of these different branches of knowledge, when renowned, are known as savants, are generally members of the Academie de Paris, and amuse themselves by appearing two or three times a week at the College de France or Sorbonne, where they pour forth masses of diverse knowledge to a most strange and motley mixture of mankind - of all nationalities - ranging from fifteen to eighty years...