Word: travel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan of teaching in the far East for a year under the Missionary Boards there was inaugurated some time ago as an attractive scheme for the men who are not decided as to what they wish to do and who would like the experience and the travel. The teachers hold positions in some institution of the East for a year in exactly the same capacity as that in which one would teach in this country. It gives an opportunity for exceptional service and enables one to study the missionary activity of the church at first hand. It greatly facilitates...
...paper. The second purpose is to assemble a library of several thousand volumes of the best books in many fields so that readers of the most diverse tastes will find something to interest them. The most desirable in this division are works of the standard novelists, books of travel, sport, history, reference, and current novels or works on topics of general interest...
...must understand that the vacation will have a clean-cut beginning and end. It will begin when a man's last class on the twentieth is over and he has registered, and will end when his first class on the fifth begins. There will be no added allowance for travel. Nothing could be clearer than this, and yet there probably will be a hundred men with courage to ask for more time. Men who intend to make this demand should remember that the College is run for its work and not for its vacations. Therefore, it is its work which...
...first volume are collected his own feelings and impressions concerning men and affairs during his years of travel and growing influence. During most of this time, Norton was abroad and his epistles give unusually close glimpses of Dickens and Carlyle and the Brownings...
...McAdie '85, of San Francisco, has succeeded the late A. L. Rotch as director of the Blue Hill Observatory Mr. McAdie will continue Mr. Rotch's investigations into the best routes for travel through the air, and he will also attempt to make practical applications of meteorological laws to human welfare...