Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Shapley stated that he had received reports from two of the three other expeditions sent out by the observatory. He said, "Mr. Campbell, who headed the expedition to New London, reports that all the resources of Connecticut College were put at his disposal. There were 600 Wellesley girls also on the campus, but their proximity apparently did not interfere seriously with his solar observations...
...London. The transfer of Ambassador Frank Billings Kellogg from London to the State Department sets up a train of consequences in the diplomatic service. After but a few days' suspense for the hopefuls who would have liked to have followed in the diverse footsteps of Messrs. Page, Davis, Harvey and Kellogg, the President announced the name of Alanson B. Houghton as Mr. Kellogg's successor...
...building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England's more famous colleges in American Universities. The assumption appears to be that culture is a kind of moss which grows spontaneously where a suitably medieval building offers the appropriate soil. London Nation...
Ramsay MacDonald joined a group of "old students" of a workingmen's college at supper in London a few nights ago, and discussed with his sometime comrades the real meaning of education and the definition of the "educated man." Certainly, said this man who has sat in the seat of Gladstone, the educated man is not a "learned man." By this is meant that he is not necessarily educated because he is learned. Nor is he an educated man simply because he is a university man, added this son of a farm laborer who was thrilled last July when...
...short, "The Wife Hunter" is an entertaining character play which is good without achieving distinction. Successful in London and New York, it will doubtless run for only a short time to moderate houses in Boston, where no play can create a furor unless it falls within the limits of the city's critical taste, which is apparently determined by the various types of vanities, follies, and scandals for the current year...