Word: ands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"The road our cars took to get there was lined with a huge crowd who cheered ceaselessly for the King and Queen, and, as we reached the vast gardens of the University, a thousand persons, most of whom were students almost deafened the royal guests by the noise of their...
The following account of the visit of the King and Queen of Belgium to the University was written by a member of the royal household. It appears in "L'Etole Belge" recently, and has been translated from the French for the CRIMSON by Yves Buhler '20.
"After dinner we visited Harvard, the great and glorious university, whose wish it was to have King Albert become a Doctor of Laws. Harvard is situated in the midst of a suburb of Boston, at Cambridge, which is a sort of small paradise of quietness, an oasis of green foliage...
"In the large reception room on the second floor, the King and Queen were addressed by President Lowell (one of the first to favor American intervention in the war as he did immediately after the violation of Belgium's neutrality), surrounded by all the professors in cap and gown. The...
"The Duke of Brabant, however, who had been committed to the care of a few students of his own age, expressed a desire to see that which the President could not show to the King and Queen, namely: the dormitories, the kitchens, the class-rooms, and so forth. He seemed...