Word: jesup
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter society in America. The University chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, was established in 1779; its list of members comprises such names as Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick Jesup Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather the leaders in scholastic attainments from each class, and also to raise the intellectual tone of the entire undergraduate body...
Some steps have been taken recently to spread the University's reputation in the southern continent. Probably the greatest influence has been the fact that out of the three United States ambassadors in South America, two--Professor Frederic Jesup Stimson '76, of the Department of Government at Buenos Aires, and Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, at Rio de Janeiro--are Harvard men. Again, Professor Lima's visits to Cambridge have been useful in promoting the proposed system. As an additional step the University is contemplating the issue of an edition of the regular catalogue in Spanish for distribution in Latin America...