Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outlawing the company union is the issue on which the Harvard Debating Council will clash with a visiting team from Leland Stanford tonight at 7.15 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. The Stanford team is now on a transcontinental tour and this is the first time Harvard and Stanford have met in debate...
...Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week, the Vienna Saenger-kuaben, famous Austrian boy choir, concludes its tour of this country with a pair of concerts at Jordan Hall. The usual one-act operas which accompany each performance will again be presented--Schubert's "A Song from Old Vienna" on Tuesday, and Mozart's "Bastien et Bastienne" on Wednesday. In addition, shorter numbers of Vittoria, Palestrina, Schubert, Brahms, and Straus are included in the programs...
Stanford is completing a transcontinental tour which has included debates with Syracuse, McGill, and Dartmouth. Members of both teams will eat supper together in the Union before the debate...
...childhood as the daughter of a Russian prince, her study of dietetics at Heidelberg at the age of 81, her invalid husband (age, 67), and her eleven sons (ages, 73 to 93) who, she thinks, are now in Russia. Said she: "I want to go on another lecture tour. But I need a business manager. They had better not let me handle money because I give it away. I don't want it as long as I have my cigarets...
When the War broke out, the Fowler brothers lied about their ages (H. W. was 57, Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part...