Word: londoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books is to go directly to well-stocked shelves and to discover unknown titles and authors...
Forbes-Robertson was born in London on January 16, 1853, and made his debut 21 years later in "Mary Stuart." From 1880-95 he appeared with such artists as the Bancrofts, Madame Modjeska, Irving, Mary Anderson, and Sir John Hare; at the end of that period he opened the Lyceum Theatre, London under his own management. His plays with Henry Irving included "Much Ado About Nothing." "Henry VIII," and "King Arthur." The present American tour is his sixth the first being with Mary Anderson in 1885; and the others following in 1889, 1902, 1905, and 1909-10. His most famous...
...exhibition and sale of war posters by Mrs. Fiske Warren, in Copley Hall, will begin on Thursday and last the rest of the week. The proceeds of the sale will be used to buy wool for the Belgian refugees who have collected in London. The members of the University who have volunteered have been assigned hours, six at a time, to help at the exhibition, which will be open on Thursday evening from 8 to 11 o'clock and on Friday and Saturday from...
...report to C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17, Beck '36, Monday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. The exhibition will last for three days, beginning next Friday evening, and the proceeds of the sale will be used to buy wool for the Belgian refugees who have been formed in groups in London...
Professor Caullery has won high honors in his profession, having received an LL.D. from St. Andrews' University in Scotland, and having been made a member of the Linnean Society of London...