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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Cambridge team was last here in March of 1947 it defeated the Crimson by a decision of two to one on the question, "Advantages of dissolution of the British Empire." Cambridge's appearance here this year is part of a tour of 21 different eastern colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Revolution Forms Topic of Cambridge Debate | 3/11/1949 | See Source »

...Nation tour is typical of the NSA offerings in this field. Students taking this tour will spend two weeks each in England, Holland, and France, and will have one week for independent travel. In each country the first week will be taken up with excursions to sites of historical interest and general lectures on current problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inexpensive Fare to Europe For Study May Be Provided | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...cost of this tour is $570, which is about the price of all of the NSA European tours. Cost includes trans-Atlantic shipboard fare, housing, food, and all expenses except those incurred during periods of independent travel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inexpensive Fare to Europe For Study May Be Provided | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...Protestant in Spain today is a second-class citizen. So concludes Pulitzer-Prizewinning Reporter Homer Bigart, who last week reported on a month spent in Spain on his way home from a year's tour of duty in the Iron Curtain countries. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Correspondent Bigart, 41, cited some chapter & verse to back up his conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestants in Spain | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...general, just a good boy trying to conform. I thought John Dos Passos was a terrible yellow belly for griping about the war." But at the time, he thought he had the world by the tail. He went to Europe in 1921 ("I was Lord Byron on a triumphal tour. God, it was wonderful!"), and in Rome became engaged to Christina Sedgwick, niece of Atlantic Monthly Editor Ellery Sedgwick. By Marquand's account, his marriage brought him "face to face with the capitalist system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spruce Street Boy | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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