Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Mussolini has decided that the best safety device for Italian vessels in foreign service will be to have the sailors learn English and swimming. Virtually 90% of our passengers speak English, and in case of danger or disaster it is highly desirable that the crew speak their language...
...long step toward preventing the likelihood of panic. Moreover, when a man knows how to swim he is much less likely to be scared out of his wits when a ship is in danger." Declaring that his own Lloyd Sabaudo Line had at once begun to teach their crews English and aquatics, Dr. Serrati intimated that all the major Italian carriers would at once follow suit. "Our crews in squads of 25," he said, "will be taught English daily in their mess rooms while our vessels are at sea, and in the ballrooms while the vessels are in port...
...Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, defeated the English, and with the aid of Joan of Arc saved France for King Charles VII. Last week Princess Charlotte, illegitimate and adopted daughter of the Prince of Monaco, rose from her sickbed at Nice and saved Monaco for Prince Louis...
...outlined. All students are required to attend the first meetings of courses in which they are enrolled. BIOLOGY A Th. at 10 Geol. Lect. Rm. CHEMISTRY A Wed. at 11 Mallinckrodt MB 9 B Th. at 11 Mallinckrodt MB 9 ENGINEERING SCIENCES 3 Th. at 3 Pierce 304 ENGLISH A-1 Mon. Sept 23, at 4 New Lect. Hall A-2 Th. at 2 Sever 1 A-3 Th. at 10 Sever 11 A-4 Wed. at 9 Emerson A B Th. at 12 and 2 Holden Chapel FINE ARTS 1a Th. at 11 Fogg Small Rm. FRENCH...
Harvard was a political and ecclesiastical rebel, but it has carried an English school tradition. In the late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses...