Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theiler, instructor in tropical medicine will act as the official bacteriologist of the expedition. D. H. Snider '21, who will serve in the capacity of botanist and mycologist has already carried on similar work in Cuba and Guiana. Loring Whitman '25, now a first year student in the Medical School will be the photographer. During his Senior year in college he was Chairman of the photographic department of the CRIMSON and is an expert photographer of wild animals and insects. H. J. Coolidge Jr. 27 will accompany the party as hunter and assistant zoologlst. He has been particularly interested...
...public which had nearly forgotten the Wood who captured Geronimo, the Wood who cleaned up Cuba, the Wood who hobnobbed with kings and kaisers, saw him depart for the Philippines with the rank of Governor General. Babbitts, great and small, gave but a slangy moment's pity to the man who had "missed out." For so it seemed. In the Philippines no glory could be gained...
...Cuba, 'which he reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when he, a Puritan, was invited to assist at the elevation of a Cuban archbishop...
During a "run" on the Royal Bank of Canada, at Havana, occasioned by false and malicious rumors, President Gerardo Machadey Morales of Cuba fought his way through the crowd and into the bank with an immense wad of notes in one hand. Arrived at the deserted window marked "Receiving," the President counted out $100,000 with the greatest possible ostentation and deposited that sum. In a twinkling the "run" stopped...
...Locust Valley, N. Y., Henry Wilkinson Bragdon '28, of Rochester, N. Y., Lincoln Davol Brayton '28, of Fall River, Henry Chauncey '28, of Columbus, O. Charles Martin Clark Jr. '28, of New York, N. Y., Frank Bryant Cutts '28, of Providence, R. L. Langdon Dearborn '28, of Havana, Cuba, Richard Thomas Dunn '28, of Bridgeport, Conn., Thomas Hopkinson Eliot '28, of Cambridge, Allen Orrick Fordyce '28, of St. Louis, Mo., George Tappan Francis Jr. '28, of Boston, Edward Bass Hall '28, of Cambridge, Arthur Andrews Holbrook '28, of Milwaukee, Wis., Thorndike Dudley Howe Jr. '28, of Boston, Robert Ingle Hunneman...