Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, with spring imminent and travel growing daily more pleasant, the Hobo College of Chicago drew its sessions to a close, held graduating exercises. Of an alleged 20,000 students enrolled in the past year, some 150 "sons of the road" filed to the rostrum for mimeographed diplomas witnessing the fact that they had taken courses in a curriculum limited chiefly to liberal subjects like public speaking, art appreciation, musicales, readings of literature. There were a baccalaureate address and "a class song rendered in the quaint idiom of the freight...
Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
This season more people will tour from the U. S.; more money will be spent; more facilities of travel agencies will be available...
...Travel agencies have been the main stimuli to world traveling as it exists today. To see Europe or other lands most comfortably, most expeditiously, with the accumulation of the most salient bits of information, more and more voyagers have taken recourse to the worldwide organization of such agencies...
Their inception was obscure, ak most accidental. In 1841 Thomas Cook, a British lecturer and writen on temperance, decided to lead a large party from Leicester to a temperance society convention at Loughborough not far away. Coaching would be difficult and confusing. Travel on the new Midland Railway was considered audacious. Yet daring, enterprising Thomas Cook chartered a train, the first "public" excursion train in history, persuaded 570 temperance members to trust to his guidance, and appeared triumphantly at Loughborough. The fare was one shilling (24 cents) the round trip...