Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen men have been awarded Sheldon Travelling Fellowships by the University, to enable them to spend the year 1923-24 in travel and study. Three of these men, Dr. G. W. Allpert '19, R. P. Casey '19, and Dr. Hallowell Davis '18, are reappointed. Dr. Allport took his Ph.D. degree last year in psychology, Mr. Casey took his S.T.B. degree at the same time and is now studying theology, while Dr. Davis is a graduate of the Medical School and is working in the field of physiology...
...International Students Tours have been established as a non-commercial undertaking for the purpose of enabling American college students and instructors to travel in foreign countries at minimum cost, and under conditions which permit a close contact with the people and institutions of the countries visited. These tours represent merely a new application of the program which the Institute of International Education has been carrying out for many years in the direction of a closer international understanding through educational opportunities a program which in the past has been characterized by such activities as international exchange professorships and scholarships, the exchange...
...Stephen P. Duggan, the director of the Institute in announcing the Students' Tours of the summer of 1923, stated their plans as follows: "The International Students' Tours have been organized to meet what I believe to be a double need for travel as a broadening and vitalizing element in the education of our young men and women, and the need for travel as a means of establishing a closer intellectual relationship between the youth of America and of other countries...
...consul's office, a stool, an alarm-clock, a cat, and a cuspidor, does not inspire an ambitious man with optimism. "Cabbages and Kings" present a consular paradise which might appeal to some; but at present, none can afford to enter the foreign service without private means. Adventure, travel and hard work may suit a young man for a short time, but unless more material incentives are provided, a permanent, expert staff cannot be maintained...
President and Mrs. Lowell arrived in Cambridge last night after their six weeks of travel abroad. They left Boston on January 27 to visit Oxford and the University of Paris on business pertaining to the University...