Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widener is so large and the workings we so much more complicated than anything in Professor Nordal's own country, that it is remarkable to him that this only a university library, and not one at some large city. Nordal hopes in the near future to travel to the New York City Public Library, an inspection tour to which he keenly look forward...
...Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes from 4½ to 6 hr. By dogteam the trip may take from 4½ to 6 weeks, costs about $400 exclusive of roadhouse bills...
...eligible but these restrictions may be waived by the committee in special cases. The award is made annually and requires the full time of the Fellow for twelve months. The stipend is $1,800 for an unmarried Fellow and $2,500 for a married Fellow with a further personal travel allowance and support allowance for the Fellow's dependents at the discretion of the committee...
...conservatism, but not for Dr. Samuel S. Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School. In words characterized by enlightenment and far-sightedness, he has declared the educational systems imposed on boys too inflexible. He believes that the brighter individuals should be allowed time to enjoy the advantages of foreign travel as a part of the curriculum...
...visionary to become an actuality. The price of an average tuition would be ample means for one who wished to study abroad, and to gain European culture at first hand. Learning would tend to become less a matter of routine than of pleasure and the benefits of travel would be realized by a greater number of individuals. Education is too large a problem to be entered entirely within any single institution...