Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play opens at a hotel in Switzerland with the arrival of a party of Americans consisting of the wealthy Mr. Grumble, his spinster sister, Maria, his daughter Marjorie, and their maid, Arethusa. Mr. Grumble has brought his daughter to Switzerland to break off her engagement with Philip Hathaway, a young Englishman who has been going through college in America. Grumble is very eager to secure a titled son-in-law and is now on the search...
...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
Professor W. M. Davis S. '69, whose appointment as German exchange professor for next year was recently announced, has also been appointed Harvard delegate to the Ninth International Geographical Congress which will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, during the last week of July. The Committee of Organization in Geneva has chosen Professor Davis to act as president of the section of the Congress devoted to the teaching of geography...
Geography and Geology.--*Physiographic Field Work in Northern Italy or Southern Switzerland; *Physiographic Studies in Central France; *Field Work in Historical and Structural Geology in Montana; *Geological and Petrographical Studies in Montana or New England; *Geological Field Work in Brazil. Professors W. M. Davis, J. E. Wolff, J. B. Woodworth, and D. W. Johnson, and Dr. G. R. Mansfield...
...Edmund Privat of Geneva, Switzerland, gave an interesting talk on "Esperanto" in the Assembly Room of the Union last evening under the auspices of the Esperanto Club...