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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their visit is unique in the fact that last Tuesday a similar group from Cambridge University, England, made a tour of Widener Library for the same purpose. This is a coincidence, however, as the two groups have no connection other than they are both under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Last year the team, on its Southern trip, traveled to Washington, D. C., Atlanta and Jacksonville. At the same time a group went west to debate the prohibition question in Indianapolis, Omaha and Chicago. The combined tour covered a distance greater than any trip taken by any other team of Harvard representatives, with the exception of the occasional Olympic entrants. This year debates will be held with Dartmouth at Hanover, and with other institutions in New York City, Canada and Florida. The annual meeting with Boston College will be given in Symphony Hall...
...part of a tour of American libraries, yesterday morning a delegation of five Englishmen arrived here to study Harvard's libraries. These men, sent by Cambridge University, will stay until tomorrow afternoon, when they will proceed to Boston, to look at the Public Library...
This committee, sent by Cambridge University, is making a tour of prominent libraries in the United States, studying them from all points of view. The purpose of the trip is to procure all available data on American libraries, before the building of a new one for Cambridge University. While here, the visitors will look at Widener and the Baker Memorial libraries. Sir Scott, who is a prominent architect, is especially interested in American libraries from the standpoint of their construction; the group is also studying all mechanics of the buildings, such as the cataloguing and arrangement...
...army in Palestine, with famed Col. Thomas Ed- ward Lawrence in Arabia. (Say partisans of Lawrence: it was partly to correct misstatements of Thomas' With Lawrence in Arabia that Lawrence wrote his Revolt in the Desert.) After the War he accom- panied the Prince of Wales on a tour of India. Air-minded, he wrote the official account of the U. S. Army's world flight (1924). Last February he returned from a long trip through wildest Asia. Says he: "I have never been bored for five minutes in my life." Other books: European Skyways, The Sea Devil, Raiders...