Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cablegrams announce that the most elaborate welcome yet given to any American Red Cross section arriving in London was that accorded the physicians and nurses of the Harvard Medical Unit which recently reached England. The welcome was in the form of a luncheon given by Sir Thomas Lipton at that gentleman's country house...
...expected that Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, U. S. N., commanding the Third Naval District, which comprises the coast territory from New London to Barnegat, will announce within the next week the establishment of a camp for the training of the men of the Naval Reserve. If such a camp is organized it will be composed of all those men who have enrolled in the Reserve since the outbreak of war who are not at present in active duty. A course of intensive training, lasting four weeks, has been mapped out, with 11 or 12 hours of work allotted...
Soon after receiving his law degree, Mr. Choate rose to the leadership of the New York bar, and in 1899 he was asked by President McKinley to go as American ambassador to London. While in England he was adopted by the inner circle of the British bar and made a "bencher", or member of the governing body of the Middle Empire, a rank of respect never conferred on a foreigner in England since...
...Yale Alumni Association of Great Britain has been founded in London. It will be the purpose of the association to provide the means of communication not only between the Yale men permanently resident in England, but also with those who are temporarily there. The general body of graduates had expressed a desire that such an association ought to be founded, since the need was felt for an active alumni organization in an allied country during war times...
...large number of De Wilde's portraits are preserved at the Garrick Club, London, and 20 others are in the Print Room at the British Museum. The drawings acquired by the Harvard Collection represent most of the famous English actors and actresses of the latter part of the 18th and the first quarter of the 19th century...