Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric Drummond, suave and able Secretary General to the League of Nations, drew a check for something over a million full-valued Swiss francs last week ($225,000). In exchange for the check, there was turned over to the League a villa on the shore of Lake Leman, the lonely Villa Bartholoni, north of Geneva, which was the residence of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson during her visit last September...
...Villa Rocabella near Locarno, Switzerland, was recently leased by a mysterious tenant, a lean, fox-faced German. Last week he motor-boated from Swiss Locarno across Lake Maggiore to Italian Stresa and there took the train for Milan. The next night he returned past Lake Maggiore, hurried on to Lucerne, where he doffed his incognito and admitted that he was the former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany...
...problem of the adjustment of diplomas. The League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation appointed the C. I. E. to enquire into the question of the usefulness of the Scientific Moving Picture Films in University education. A special bureau was set up in Zurich under the auspices of the Swiss National Students Union, and we shall be able to hand over a complete report to the League suggesting how this department may best be carried...
...material side of life, there were a few but successful attempts which I should like to mention. Perhaps the greatest was the creation of the University Sanatorium in Leysen, Switzerland by the Swiss students. During the last year the French students raised the necessary funds to establish a similar sanatorium in the French Alps near Grenoble...
After the Congress breaks up, the Harvard representatives will separate. Professor Palache will remain in Spain for the rest of the summer. Professor Daly will go to the Swiss Alps to study their structure. This will be a continuation of the researches he has been carrying on for some time as to the causes for the formation of mountains. Professor parsen will return from Spain early in the summer and will travel to southwestern Colorado for the United States Geological Survey to study volcanic rocks...