Word: acquaintances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cunningham, J. J. Hill Professor of Transportation, and others will lecture in the course on Traffic Management, which aims to assist men who are to become traffic managers of industrial concerns, or who intend to enter the traffic department of railroad service. It is intended also to acquaint business men in general with the important relations between the railroads and the public. Several lectures in this course on the principles of rate making will be given by E. J. Rich '87, Commerce Counsel for the Associated Industries of Massachusetts...
...President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...Little '18, dean of the Freshman class, explained efforts now being made to acquaint the boys in the preparatory schools who plan to come to Harvard with the conditions they will meet when they arrive. Dean Briggs, who had a cold, did not speak, but was loudly applauded...
...modern literature is the field to which he turns, he may some day be sorry that he did not take enough Classics in college at least to acquire a reading knowledge of Greek and Latin and to acquaint himself at first hand with some of the ancient masterpieces. For he will find that most of the great writers in our own literature and in the literatures of Italy, France, Spain and Germany were indebted to the ancients not only for phrases, thoughts, incidents and imagery, but for the larger matters of literary form. The moderns are not less original...
Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...