Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the meeting, will be devoted to informal luncheons and business meetings for each graduate department of Harvard University. These gatherings are planned especially for the man who holds a degree from the University other than an A.B. A banquet for all schools and invited guests will take place Thursday evening, with speakers of national prominence...
...preliminary trials for the Pasteur Debate, which were to take place Monday night, have been postponed to next Monday, when they will be held at 7.30 o'clock in Sever...
...engine, as it stands now, takes the place of the famous old Lampoon engine which Bob Lampoon and his associates purchased several years ago from the town of Sandwich, when that colony on the Cape replaced its old engine with modern fire apparatus. Lampy always brought his engine to the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon ball game and at one time parked it in front of the CRIMSON building from which vantage point it pumped water on all the editors who were on the balcony. This however is the only time that the engine ever-pumped water after its purchase...
Perhaps the most sweeping of the proposed improvements is that whereby Rhodes Scholars may select institutions other than Oxford as their places of study. Apparently the committee has recognized the growing feeling that the relatively large number of Rhodes men at Oxford has begun to lend a definite color to the place. The "American Quarter" atmosphere no doubt has a tendency to antagonize the true born Englishman and certainly there have been many Americans who have deliberately gone elsewhere in their search for an environment more genuinely native than that afforded by an institution than that afforded by an institution...
...thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what to do with it. . . . Certainly there is no service to humanity that Henry Ford could make of more lasting benefit than to send such a committee as I have outlined...