Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintaining a high quality in the treatment of a set subject. A member of the CRIMSON board said recently that the vent in his life which he enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into...
Twenty-six hundred botanical specimens were collected in the course of the expedition, and many of them have been placed in museums of the University. It was discovered that the only difference between the forests of Africa and those of South America was in the variety of palm trees. Whereas there are several hundred species of the palms in South America, there are only 15 in Liberia...
...Strong Hon. '16, professor in the Harvard Medical School, will show motion pictures in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock taken by members of the expedition to Africa from which he returned last fall. He will also speak, comparing the life and customs of the natives in Belgian Congo and in Liberia...
...Harvard African Expedition was sent out in the fall of 1926 under the auspices of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Strong and Dr. G. C. Shattuck '01 were the two leaders. Their purpose was to make a biological and medical survey of Liberia, that being the country of Africa which was least known in these fields. After spending several months in this region, they proceeded through Belgian Congo to Mount Mombassa on the east coast, in order to complete their data...
...nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity of her face...