Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three weeks; 50 men to form entertainment troupes of six or eight men each to give an entertainment one evening each month or six weeks; men with talent for instrumental and vocal music, reading, gymnastics, and speaking are needed, as well as men with ability to give illustrated travel talks...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in substance, that he had been greatly impressed during his recent travel in the South by the great gains education is making there, the most significant feature being the rapid growth and development and the improvement in quality of the secondary schools there. Harvard and all the great universities have especial interest in this gain of the schools. The prestige of Harvard must be maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value...
Professor D. G. Lyon, h. '01, will deliver a series of four illustrated lectures on "Travel and Exploration in Palestine," at the Semitic Museum, on Wednesday afternoons, at 4 o'clock. The dates and titles are as follows: February 24 and March 3, "The Harvard Excavations at Samaria," March 10 and 17, "Present Conditions in Palestine as Illustrating the Bible." The series will be open to the public...
From March 8 until March 19 he will travel from Louisiana to Columbia, South Carolina, stopping at the Universities of Alabama and Georgia. At Columbia he will visit the University of South Carolina, and on March 20 will stop at Wofford College on his way to Asheville. March 24 will be occupied by a trip to Guilford College and other colleges of the district. On the evenings of March 28 and 29 he will speak at dinners given by the Harvard Clubs of Washington and Maryland respectively, and on April 1 he will attend in Morristown a banquet given...
...Board of Overseers at their last meeting, at which the appointment of Professor Charles H. Haskins as dean was confirmed. Professor Haskins will not be able to enter upon his duties until next September, as he will leave for Europe, where he intends to study and travel, late in February. His place in History 1 will be taken by Dr. Howard L. Gray...