Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France and Russia are openly on speaking terms again. And Maire Herriot's visit to Moscow is looked upon in the same light as Lafayette's to America...
...Engineering School the Hennen Jennings scholarship goes to Vsevolod Nicolas Krivobok gr. E. S. of Poltava, Russia, a graduate student in metallurgy; the Eveleth scholarship to Nahum Sabsay E.S. of Cambridge; the Searle scholarship to H. M. Gault of Boston...
...nephew of the Marchioness of Aberdeen who came to America on a mission for Ireland some time ago, and he is also heir presumptive to Lord Tweedmouth. His mother is an American from Nashville, Tenn., a grand-daughter of N. S. Brown, who was Ambassador to Russia when Alaska was sold to America. Mr. Hollis was educated at Balliol College, and is Secretary of the Oxford Union Debating Society and a member of the Liberal Party. Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, educated at Worcester, is a former President of the Union and a member of the Labor Party...
Three thousand volumes of extremely valuable Russian books, including the first important historical sets since the Revolution in Russia, are also being added to the Library, most of which were collected by Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, Director of Widener, during his stay in Moscow. Included in the collection are some extremely rare and learned works, such as the reports of the Russian Archeographical and Archeological Commission, and these will be valuable to advanced students in the University. Books of a lighter vein, some illustrated by Russian artists of the new school; Bolshevist periodicals, many of literary and scholarly merit...
...hear about another experiment to idealize industry. This time it is not in Russia, out West, or in the East Indies, but it is in the nearby town of Foxboro, Mass. A prominent citizen has led in a "New Civilization" movement which allows passengers in the busses to pay whatever fare they wish. Each week's deficit on the bus line is so much smaller than the loss of the preceding week that it looks as if the "New Civilization" might soon support itself and extend its activities to other commodities...