Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Four transports from Cuba containing about 1270 Cuban teachers arrived at the Charlestown Navy Yard during the first few days in July. A few more teachers came later bringing the total up to 1283. All the teachers were immediately taken to Cambridge in special electric cars and assigned to their respective rooms...
...University of Pennsylvania has ordered 10,000 copies of its annual catalogue to be printed in Spanish for circulation in South America, Mexico, Cuba and Porto Rico...
...interesting pamphlet has recently been published for the guidance of the Cuban teachers who are coming to Cambridge this summer. It is printed in English and Spanish by the order of the military governor of Cuba...
Among other things the pamphlet states that one of the five transports which will bring the 1450 teachers to Boston will be given up entirely to women. Leaving Cuba about June 26, they will arrive about July 1, after which the teachers will at once be brought to their rooms in Cambridge. Every effort will be made to secure comfort on the transport ships, and special decks are to be fitted up for the accommodation, of the men in the party...
...headed by an encargada or chaperon. This system is expected to add greatly to the health and comfort of the teachers and will simplify the arrangements for caring for them. During the summer the same salaries will be paid to the teachers as if they had remained in Cuba; and at the same time it is probable that the individual expenses will be very small. An emergency fund will be formed by contribution of each member of the party, to meet incidental travelling expenses; but in no case is a teacher to pay more than ten dollars for this purpose...