Word: toured
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article we publish in this issue is significant of the fact that "this is a contracting world." The "grande tour" of Europe of a former generation is today being increasingly replaced by a year's trip around the world. That such an experience is profitable in various ways we cannot have a doubt, but with it unquestionably goes an element of dilettantism. --Nine months teaching at a mission school may not permit the covering of one-half the territory, but it has three distinct advantages: 1--It gives an intimate sympathetic knowledge of at least one foreign race...
...Noyes, the English poet, who has made so successful a tour of the country, has chosen a subject for his address this evening which will attract hundreds of people. The war scares that periodically pervade the nations have many interesting phases, and to Mr. Noyes not the least interesting is their needlessness. But if "Militarism" does not invite you, then the assertion that Mr. Noyes's poetry has a spirit and movement which come from a story well-told is sure to draw you to his reading. As one of our professors has rightly remarked, he is among...
Through your columns I should esteem it a favor to be allowed to communicate with any men in the University interested in a camping tour during the summer in connection with the Massachusetts Sea Coast Defence. The officers and men of the 3rd Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, desire to call attention to the opportunity of attending camp this summer on one of the islands situated in Boston Harbor, where instruction, practice and "service Firing" with ten and twelve inch disappearing guns is conducted. This camp affords an interesting experience of ten days duration, combining a short taste...
...United States War Department has recently offered to accept men from the University for a tour of duty at an infantry camp during a greater part of the summer. For many the latter is too long a period of time to allot to a proposition of this sort, whereas a shorter time might prove more convenient and desirable to them. The camp of the 3rd Company will be held this summer from July 10th to the 19th...
...trip starts on June 26 on the S. S. "France." The itinerary includes over fifty points of interest in France, the trips wherever possible being made in sight seeing cars or boats. Returning, the expedition leaves Havre on August 30. The total cost of the tour is $485. Further information may be obtained from Mr. Bruno, Maison Francaise, Columbia University, New York...