Word: journeying
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...public meeting of the Travellers' Club to be held in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening, at 8 o'clock, Professor W. M. Davis will give an illustrated lecture on "A Summer in Turkestan." Professor Davis's journey, which was made during the past summer, was undertaken on the invitation of M. Raphael Pumpelay, who was conducting an exploration in Western Asia for the Carnegie Institution of Washington, with the object of studying the relation of the geographical features of the region to its occupation by ancient peoples. Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which...
Arrangements have been made for two entertainments to be given in the Living Room of the Union next week. On Monday, November 16, the Florida Academy Quartet will sing plantation melodies. On Tuesday, November 17, Mr. Ralph D. Paine, Yale '94, will speak; probably on "The Journey from Shanghai to Pekin." Mr. Paine was recently a correspondent, of the Boston Herald, and has travelled much in Eastern Asia. The entertainments will be open to Union members only...
Professor W. M. Davis has returned from his journey to Turkestan, as a member of the Carnegie Institute Expedition for archaeological and geographic study, which was led by Professor Raphael Pumpelly of Newport. The chief subjects of his geographic investigations were the elevated shore lines of the Caspian Sea, the extensive river-plains of central Turkestan, and the terraces and glacial deposits among the western ranges of the Tian Shan mountain system. The furthest point reached by Professor Davis was Lake Issikkul in North-Eastern Turkestan, whence he returned through Western Siberia and St. Petersburg. Mr. Ellsworth Huntington...
This evening at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will give the third lecture in the series on English Essayists. The subject will be William Hazlitt, author of "Actors and Acting," "The Indian Jugglers," "The Fight," "On Going a Journey," "On the Look of a Gentleman," "The English Novelists," "Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen," and other essays on men, society, and books...
...lecture by Commander Peary was given last Friday evening, and the object of which is "the promotion of intelligent travel and exploration, especially by Harvard men," will hold three more meetings this spring. On March 27, Mr. A. Hamilton Rice, '98, will speak on "Equatorial America," describing his journey over the Andes and down the Amazon; this meeting will be open to members of the club and invited guests. On May 1, a lecture will probably be given by Professor I. C. Russell, lately of the U. S. Geological Survey, now of the University of Michigan, on his ascent...