Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...navigator Grieve, the daring pair who tried to be the first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, are safe again on English soil and were royally feted on their arrival last night in London cannot fail to appeal to the American imagination as much as to the British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with...
Professor Earnest Arthur Gardner Litt.D., Lieutenant-Commander in the British Navy and archaeological expert, will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial lecture in the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject is "Loss and Recovery of Greek Sculpture," and the lecture will be open to the public. Professor Gardner is Yates Professor of Archaeology in University College, London University, and is the author of several works on Greek...
First Served With British Forces...
Norton started his first section in the fall of 1914, and worked in connection with, the British Army. As this was not considered as "neutral" service, Mr. Norton was forced to form an independent section by joining with the Harjes volunteer unit then working on the western front...
...this is the theory on which they proceed, the current number of the Advocate is a success. The material ranges in subject from ghosts to British Guiana, and from prohibition to joy rides. Nearly everywhere there is clear thought and clear expression--occasionally there is distinction, and only rarely, real mediocrity. A reading of the whole number conveys very much the impression given by an afternoon spent in "good talk"--if such an afternoon were possible--with a group of active and well-informed undergraduates of no type and confined to no one set of ideas. Perhaps here...