Word: traveler
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...first of the series of practical talks on subjects connected with travel and exploration, announced by the Travellers' Club, will be given by Professor C. E. Fay, of Tufts College, on Mountaineering in Harvard 1, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The talk will include a brief reference to the development of Alpine climbing as a sport, and will then take up the more practical problems of equipment for camping and climbing in the mountains, with suggestions on snow and ice work and the ascent of rocky crags. The risks and the precautions of mountaineering will be set forth...
...strife. In the case of a national boundary or a racial difference, a part of the responsibility may be laid upon nature, though even a national boundary ceases to be the scene of conflict in proportion as the members of the separated groups come to know one another through travel and commerce. Mutual intercourse tends to bridge the gap which nature established, and consequently to remove the cause of international conflict...
Professor N. S. Shaler '62, Dean of the Scientific School, sailed from Boston on January 2, for Egypt, where he will remain until about March 1. He will go up the Nile to Khartoum, and perhaps, if the conditions are favorable, will take some caravan trip. He will then travel in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and the north coast of Africa, probably returning to America before Commencement. He is accompanied by Mrs. Shaler...
...candidate who receives the Fellowship will be required to spend at least one year in travel and study in Europe under the general direction of the Professor of Architecture. He will also be required to submit monthly reports of his progress and to send at the end of each half year a measured drawing of some monument of architecture to be approved by the Department...
...Wild West" will be the subject of an illustrated lecture, in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock, by the Hon. Arthur K. Peck. Mr. Peck is a traveller of note in both Europe and America and has made a desirable reputation as a lecturer on places of interest in the western parts of the United States. This evening he will describe a visit to Custer's battlefield, the Sioux and Crow Indian reservations, horse-back trips with the cow-boys, explorations in the Bad Lands, digging fossil remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures...