Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Christian Association, Foreign Missions Meeting, Phillips Brooks House...
...American School at Rome, now in its fifth year, as a representative American institution in a foreign land and dependent upon Americans very largely for its support justly claims the interest of all our universities. It has passed the experimental stage and already endowment funds are being quietly collected which will put the school on a sound financial basis. It is growing in every direction. The library is admirably selected and constantly receiving valuable additions...
...University of California have issued invitations to the leading universities of America for a conference to be held in Washington in February, 1900, for the consideration of problems connected with graduate work. The conference has been prompted, in the words of the invitation, "by a desire to secure in foreign universities, where it is not already given, such credit as is legitimately due to the advanced work done in our own universities of high standing, and to protect the dignity of our Doctor's degrees. . . . There is reason to believe that, among other things, the deliberations of such a conference...
...American Historical Association held the final session of its fifteenth annual meeting last Friday at Cambridge. "Foreign Relations" was the general subject for the morning session which was held in Sanders Theatre. Among the papers read on this topic were, "Democracy and Diplomacy," by Professor S. M. Macvane '73; "The Mexican Question of 1847-8," by Professor E.G. Bourne of Yale University; "The Government of Foreigners," by Professor John Bach McMaster of the University of Pennsylvania, and "The Samoan Question," by Baron Spech von Steinberg, of the German Embassy...