Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the following were news: Claude Rice, 45, longtime Negro cook and porter on the ''business car'' of President Michael Harrison Cahill of Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R., was appointed "special traffic representative" in charge of Negro travel. Black, genial Trafficman Rice's chief job will be to persuade travel-loving Negroes to ride Katy's Jim Crow cars to their innumerable conventions...
...rarely are we given an opportunity to pay into the private lives of our college professors that we should consider this charming novel of travel brought to us by Dr. Walter Starkie, professor of Spanish at the University of Dublin, an invigorating experience. In Raggle Taggle, an crudite man of letters doffs his pedagogical trimmings and sets out with a fiddle and a camera on an audacious tramp through the rougher regions of the Balkan countries. From its beginning this fascinating tale is one continuous entertainment, expounding adventure after adventure among the dark-skinned, musical vagabonds of Europe's gypsy...
After reading this pleasant book of travel you will be more prone to appreciate the latent qualities, and feel more kindly towards the sometimes stern, dogmatical figure on the rostrum in your lecture hall...
...Yesterday's scheduled game between Winthrop and Eliot Houses was cancelled and thus the Puritans end the season with their unbeaten, unscored on record intact. Their victory Friday over Adams having clinched the championship for them, Winthrop House will travel to New Haven Saturday to play Saybrook College, champions of the Yale college league, at 2.30 o'clock in the Bowl...
...Thursday a preliminary meeting of all Freshmen interested in debating will be held in one of the upstairs rooms of the Union at 7.30 o'clock President Phillips stated that men would find debating experience valuable, because, for one thing, it offers greater opportunities for travel than any other College activity. This year opportunity is given to arrange trips to Richmond, Chicago, and to Canada, as well as other shorter journeys. Half a dozen applications for dual meets with the first year debaters have already been received, including invitations from Brown, Holy Cross, and Vermont...