Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon learning that his undergraduates had been invited to play a game of football with the University of Michigan, President Andrew D. White of Cornell snapped: "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl...
...Travel time will not be granted to anyone except those who live a long distance away. Under the previous arrangement, it had been granted liberally, but this year it will be given only to those who need it to get home by Christmas...
...classes on Friday or Saturday. Since most of the advanced courses to not meet during the Reading Period, there would have been a temptation for a good many students to tak the extra few days anyway. Also, under the original schedule, it would have been necessary to grant travel time very liberally to men living at a distance. In extending the vacation, the Faculty voted that travel time should not ordinarily be granted. The only exceptions will be in the case of a few men who would have to be granted travel time to reach their homes by Christmas...
Next from the loudspeakers crackled the high-pitched voice of Philippine President Quezon: "The people of the East send greetings. . . . What far-reaching facilities for our mutual commerce! For travel! For international understanding! For peace...
...Travel & resort publicity...