Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Harris graduated from the University with the degree of A.B. in 1891 and the next year received the degree of A.M. He carried on his post-graduate work at the University, Berlin, Paris, and Oxford, returning to Cambridge in 1898 as an instructor in Greek. He was a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Boston Archaeological Society, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. During the war he acted as an instructor in the University R. O. T. C. and served on several war time committees. He was connected with Mr. Francis H. Bacon...
...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...
There are now 112 Harvard Clubs which belong to the Associated Harvard Clubs, President Marvin reports. Of these, 99 are in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 10 in foreign countries or insular possessions. The Harvard Club of Berlin has been reorganized under Ambassador A. B. Houghton '86; Ambassador R. W. Child '03, is president of the Harvard Club of Rome; and the newly-formed Harvard Club of Paris has completed a fund of 25,000 francs to send a French boy to Harvard, the first 1000 francs having been contributed by Ambassador Herrick
...April 30 the first airplane left London on the London-Berlin-Moscow air line. The through flight from London to Berlin costs $30-or four cents a mile. From Berlin the trip is continued by night train and day flying and the passenger reaches the once inaccessible Moscow in 36 hours...
...Berlin-to-Moscow travel in 36 hours...