Word: training
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coolidge described his journey into East Africa via Nairobi to Kijabe, where he set out across a waterless desert with a train of bullock wagons to the Wandorobo river. This was the only method of crossing this stretch, for the bullocks were able to travel several days without water. Among the game he shot and photographed were lions, leopards, bush cats, cheetahs, ostriches, and rhinos...
Colby then told of his expedition to Mt. Kenia in search of elephants. He described the customs and characteristics of the Mweru, Masai, Kikuyu, and other tribes through which he traveled. On several occasions, too, he was obliged to settle tribal dissensions among his own train...
...following committee has been appointed to make train arrangements for the Harvard Club of Boston: Charles Warren '89, J. W. Lund '90, J. A. Parker '91, and J. A. Burgess...
...University Musical Clubs will give a concert under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Brooklyn in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N. Y., this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The clubs will leave Boston on the 12 o'clock train and will take dinner at the New York Harvard Club. After the concert they will be entertained at a smoker at the Hamilton Club...
...provides the money for this social pilgrimage and takes the right of free comment upon it for his compensation; her secretaries, a well contrasted Boston youth of the aether and a western girl of less rarified atmosphere; the Russian prince, exotic and amorous, that she gathers into her train; women of Breezeboro, women of Newport, women of Boston--aesthetic, intellectual, philanthropic, or "merely" social; and finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge. The comedy is brightest, most observant, and most entertaining in the act that assembles playfully and good-naturedly...