Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interest in the call for constructive criticism of the Harvard of today and tomorrow will be stimulated by announcement of the itinerary of the free tour which is to be given to the undergraduate who best answers in an essay the question "What one policy, plan, or improvement would you like to see extended or inaugurated at Harvard...
...fortify his health, he started on a walking tour through Scotland. There the mist wetted him, the food was bad, he met "a mahogany-faced old jackass who knew Burns." While he was tramping 30 miles a day in drenched clothes for the sake of his throat, certain sharp dolts in Edinburgh published a review of his poem Endynrion, called it "Cockney Poetry," advised him to go back "to plasters, pills and ointment boxes," prophesied that his bookseller would not a second time "venture £50 on anything he might write." These reviews were waiting for him when he returned...
Dean Briggs does not plan to remain in Cambridge next year. Part of this time he plans to spend in an extended tour of Europe. If his health permits, he hopes to settle down on his return to literary work. He will do no more teaching, and it is not yet known who will take his place in English 5 and his other famous courses...
...Gallo. When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band. Evening after evening the bandsmen practiced, their cheeks became sturdy to expel much wind, their fingers nimble to run upon the stops. "We will go on tour," they said. Gallo booked the tour. The band reached California. There, stranded on the golden shore had flopped an Italian opera company. Creditors were calling for the scenery, waiting at the stage door for the piano. Gallo took charge, christened the floundering company the San Carlo, sent it also...
...give grand opera in the U. S. at $3 a ticket and avoid bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923). He has kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...