Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...setting for the first act is in a Swiss village. The story is of a pretty New York heiress, whose father is determined that she shall marry a title. Marjorie Grumble is engaged to Philip Hathaway, a college man; but old Mr. Grumble objects very seriously to the match because he wishes his daughter to marry a man with a title. He accordingly whisks her off to Europe, with her Aunt Maria and a colored maid. They are followed by Hathaway and two of his college friends, Billie Burt and Bertie Bill, disguised as wandering minstrels. Hathaway and his friends...
...following books have been added to the Library of the Union: "Little Pilgrimages among Old New England Inns," by W. D. Howells h. '67; "The Fair Lavinia and Others," by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; "Our Life in the Swiss Highlands," by J. A. Symonds; "Memories of my Life," by Sarah Bernhardt; "National Problems," by D. R. Dewey; "National Development," by E. E. Sparks; "Plays of our Forefathers," by C. M. Gayley...
...library has just received a valuable shipment of books on Swiss History, a gift from W.B. Cutting, Jr., '06 and Assistant Professor A.C. Coolidge '87. There are about 400 volumes in the collection. Mr. Cutting, who is at present living at St. Moutz, Switzerland, has devoted much time during the past winter to gathering these books. The collection contains many valuable old books and later treatises on the various points of Swiss history...
Lecoq, France, won the 30-yard open revolver event with a score of 259; and Standelhofen, the Swiss, won the open rifle shoot with a score of 244, both out of a possible...
Negotiations with the Swiss Government have resulted in the definite promise of a full-size reproduction of one of the most remarkable works of medieval Swiss sculpture: the great fourteenth century sepulchral monument of La Sarraz. Negotiations with other governments are now pending...