Word: toured
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor G. H. Palmer, of the Philosophy Department, will make the tour of the four western colleges with which Harvard has established close relations and will lecture for a few weeks at each. Professor Palmer's devotion to the University and his incalculable services of a life time for its welfare have been experienced by thousands of students. The selection of Professor Palmer as the University's envoy to the West is therefore sufficient indication in itself of the care which the sturdy growth of the new relations is being fostered. In return for the services of Professor Palmer, Knox...
...Harvard Commission on Western History recently established by the Corporation has commenced its work of making a collection of books and documents on the history and development of the West, broadly interpreted. Professor Hart has been advertising the project on his tour through the West, and Dean Wells, secretary of the commission, is sending out letters to graduates and undergraduates living in the western states asking individuals to aid in the work by reporting to him any material, such as books, pamphlets, newspapers, reports, letters, etc., bearing on the history of their own section of the country...
...poignant that they prefer a trip on a cattle-ship rather than none at all. Realizing the general prevalence of this desire for foreign travel, the French Society at Columbia University has entered into a new field of activity and drawn up a plan for an educational tour of France during the coming summer. The aim of the society is to conduct the trip on a purely educational basis, and so it has reduced prices to an absolute minimum. The trip will be strictly informal, members of the party being placed under no restrictions, and it will include all points...
...foreigners, and now holds that professor-ship. He also organized a cosmopolitan club in his university which has done a great deal to bring foreign students in closer touch with German student life. Dr. Paszkowski is especially interested in American universities and colleges and is now making a tour of America, lecturing at the various educational centres throughout the country. This will be his only lecture in or about Boston, and will be open to the public...
Philip Snedeker '11, of Hempstead, N. Y., died at Batavia, Java, last week, after a short illness of pneumonia. Up to the time of his illness, he was on a tour of the world with Edward Hutchins '11, on which he started last fall. He will be buried in Batavia...