Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year of teaching, a year of preaching, a year of travel, seven years at Smith, three years at Minnesota, five years at Michigan-then death. So quickly closed a brief and brilliant career of less than 20 years...
...hold its fiftieth anniversary this June. In 1878 he entered the University Faculty as a tutor in prescribed Freshman Greek, in which capacity he continued for three years. Then, when professor A. S. Hill was forming the Department of English, Mr. Briggs took two years out for study and travel before joining the new department, where he has remained ever since without a sabbattical year. "Then," said the Dean with a smile, "I have just lived on up to the present...
...amounting to no less than violent demise were still life among the hangers-on when a CRIMSON reporter get to the bottom of the mystery. K. S. Conkey '27 finally confessed to the ownership of the trunk and later confided that ambulance riding was quite his ordinary form of travel being an habitue of the Boston Sanitarium. "As for the trunk," he laughed, the only, thing dead in that is a set of Cicero's Orations...
Colonel Moore has always been a lover of the wilderness. Soon after his graduation from Princeton, his restless disposition urged him to travel through the Rockies and as far north as the Peace River. At the outbreak of the World War, he was so far from human contact that six weeks passed before he heard even a rumor of it. Immediately he set out on foot, walked two hundred miles to the nearest town, signed up and went overseas to Flanders, where he served with great distinction. As soon as peace was declared, he returned to his life of wandering...
...European universities the stress of extra-curriculum activities is absent. There students have time to eat, to talk, to think. They have leisure enough to travel a bit and to read a little in fields quite outside their own particular course of study. Harvard was like that once. Emerson did little reading for his classes, but much for himself; and Roosevelt, too, found time to reflect and write. The Harvard College of today is far different. Men no longer have time to linger over meals, to exchange ideas, and so to broaden their intellectual horizons. The passing of Memorial Hall...