Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various public duties. His service to the state for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis was remarkable. Although past middle life, he never hesitated when the needs of the Commonwealth called him, and gave up a toilsome and exacting profession to accept a chairmanship of the State Board for Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, which entailed duties, if possible, more toilsome. His work on the Harvard Corporation was distinguished by the same thoroughness and comprehensive interest as he showed in his profession. His special committee had to do with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum...
...magnificent building, to Mr. Adolphus Busch who, actuated only by patriotism and generosity, has given funds which make the building possible, to the German Emperor who has encouraged the movement with gifts of money and works of Germanic art, an expression of gratitude is due. With feelings of relief we note the passing of the unfortunate Germanic Museum, and with gratitude we receive one more thing to teach us that a university is a place where the characteristics and thought of the peoples of the world are mingled, an institution which owes the country and the world a great debt...
Owing to the early arrival and departure of the commission sent by the French Government to present a bas-relief of France for the statue of Champlain at Crown Point, N. Y., the lecture which was to have been given by two members of the commission in New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 5 o'clock has been cancelled. The enjoys will arrive in Boston early this morning and, after visiting the Boston Public Library, will come out to Cambridge in time for M. Etienne Lamy to address the class in History 1, in New Lecture Hall...
...part of the commission sent by the French Government to present a bas relief of France for the statue of Champlain at Crown Point, N. Y., will come to Cambridge tomorrow afternoon, accompanied by Robert Bacon '09, late ambassador to France, and now a member of the Corporation. Two of the members of the commission, M. Etienne Lamy, a member of the French Academy, and M. Vidal de la Blache, professor of Geography at the Sorbonne, Paris, will make addresses in New Lecture Hall, tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock. The meeting will be open to the public...
...town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central...