Word: journey
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland will give his second reading from the "Wits and Humorists," and in particular form the works of Sterno, Smollett and Dickens. His selections will be from "Tristram Shandy," "The Sentimental Journey," "Pickwick Papers," and "David Copperfield." The reading will be open only to members of the University...
...flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing the truths and sublimity of science down to the comprehension of humanity; and a journey in his company from Boston to New York realized all our ideas of rapid transit. To see him thus the centre of rapt listeners led one to recall Lowell's "Incident in a Railway Car", in which is portrayed the effect of Burns' humanity on humanity; and we will substitute science...
Much of the journey was made in canoes through a region not before visited by English travellers, where the inefficient administration of the penal settlements has permitted the escape of prisoners, many of whom have become forest outlaws. The natives of the region belong to five different peoples, and among them are some whose religious rites include the keeping and sacrificing of bears. The return journey was made through Manchuria, which at that time had to be crossed in disguise...
Professor Davis made the trip to South Africa last summer with the British Association. All the places of interest, including the gold and the diamond mines, were visited and the return journey was made along the East Coast and through...
...open Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock, instead of as formerly from 2 to 6, and members of the University are invited to come there during the afternoon. At about 4.30 o'clock Professor W. M. Davis '69 will speak on "Some Experiences on a Recent Journey to South Africa with the British Association." Following the talk there will be music...