Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Illinois. Last year Mr. Forsythe was an instructor at Harvard, and conducted a similar trip for several members of the University. He has just been appointed an unofficial member of a committee chosen by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to arrange for a regular course of European travel under the auspices of the Association. The committee is composed of Professor H. L. Warren, of the Department of Architecture, chairman; Professor Vaird, of Pennsylvania, and Professor Vaiorence of Technology...
...when parts of the world had great opportunities, but there never has been and probably never will be a time with such possibilities for progress in every part of the world. Nevertheless, the present is unequalled in dangerous conditions. Owing to the great improvement in means of communication and travel, the nations of the world have been brought close together. As a result, there is an increased friction between the different countries, and a breaking up of the old restraints. It is this tendency towards compactness which presents the gravest danger, namely, the increasing consolidation of the non-Christian world...
...leave of absence in the second half-year; W. S. Ferguson, Ph.D., Professor of Ancient History, for the second semester only; R. B. Merriman, Litt. B., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in History; and E. H. Hall, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor in Physics. These sabbaticals are granted to give opportunity for rest, travel, or research...
...Wednesday, February 18, the Clubs will travel to Fall River to give a concert there under the auspices of the Harvard Club of Fall River. The concert will be followed by a dance. On March 3, the Clubs will perform in West Newton, here also being entertained at a dance, and on April 18, the night before the spring vacation, will give their annual concert at the Harvard Club of New York. A special train will take the men to Providence on April 29, and on May 14 the Glee Club in conjunction with the Radcliffe choir will render choral...
...Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education...