Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have charge of responsible consulates. But there are many subordinate offices requiring the same type on work on a smaller scale and offering opportunities for advancement. Moreover there are numerous special positions of which the most important is the of consul general at large, whose duty, it is to travel from place to place inspecting each consular office once in two years. For men especially interested in economics there are offices for economic investigation, in which the appointee spends all of his time in the study of economic conditions...
...International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association has announced through Phillips Brooks House that it will conduct a European Travel Group this summer. This group is to be composed of 48 men, if possible, one from every state in the Union. All applicants should be Juniors in College and not less than 21 years of age. In addition to this, they must be students of more than ordinary ability, and Christian leaders of considerable experience...
...Executive Secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation. A national committee will have charge of the selection of men. Each member must cover all his own expenses on the trip, which will vary from $500 to $700. Arrangements have been made so that some of the men may travel in the steerage either on the way over, or on the way back, so that a closer study of the conditions facing immigrants may be made...
...preparation for the general examinations, will be strengthened next year by the appointment as tutor of Professor H. A. Yeomans '00, of the 'Department of Government. Professor Yeomans served as Dean of the University from 1916 to 1921, and is now spending a year's leave of absence in travel. On his return to the University next autumn he will give half of his time to tutorial work with undergraduates...
Well, the line was constructed and operation started. Again the natural thing happened. Most people in the city had to walk to and from work--at three miles an hour. The lucky fellow who got near this new transit line--the moving street--could travel six or eight miles an hour. Of course, as many as could, moved near the routes. They were attracted, just as a magnet attracts. Just as the iron filings flow to the magnetic lines, so the people swarmed along the new line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion...