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...Colombo early in December. The next six weeks will be spent in India; the party will leave Calcutta in January for Singapore. From Singapore Dr. Eliot will take a side trip to Java and then sail for Hong Kong where he will spend a week before going to Manila. After a short trip through the Philippine Islands the party will return to China and late in April will leave for Japan. Dr. Eliot will visit the Hawaiian Islands on his return trip, reaching New York July...
Congressman Loud has been a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House since 1903. He was one of the two civilians present at the battle of Manila Bay and Cavite, when Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet. Mr. Loud was also a member of the party which accompanied President Taft on his tour of the Philippine Islands. He has made several trips to the Canal Zone, and is thoroughly acquainted with the work on the Panama Canal...
...presence of President Lowell and Mr. Eliot. The attendance is expected to be larger than at any previous meeting and large delegations are expected from the clubs of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cleveland, as well as representatives from the clubs of Japan, Berlin, Hawaii and Manila. During the course of the meeting President Lowell. Mr. Eliot, Mr. R. J. Cary '90, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and A. G. Cable '09 will speak. A number of questions connected with College affairs and policy will be brought up for discussion,--the new Graduate School of Business Administration...
...ships visited a number of cities in Australia. They then sailed to Manila and from there to Japan. At Tokio the admiral and captains met the Mikado, receiving an honor that has seldom been conferred upon foreigners. For five days the festivities continued in honor of the squadron. At the end of that time the fleet left Japan for Manila, and after a month's gun practice it started for the United States...
...entrance to the harbor in which the enemy's fleet lay at anchor. Immediately the whole country rang with the praises of this daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown at the "ungrateful" recipient...