Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the terms of the Charles Dexter Scholarships seven students of English Literature, several of them instructors in the Department of English will be enabled to study and travel in England during the summer of 1929. They will visit Oxford and Cambridge Universities while there. The winners of these scholarships are: Warner G. Rice, Ph.D. '27. Instructor in English: Lawrence S. Wright, University of California '24, Instructor in English: Marston S. Balch, A.M. '25: Robert J. Allen, A.M. '28: Mark W. Eccles A.M. '28: Hyman T. Silverstein A.M. '27; Claude M. Newlin...
Four fellowships in fine arts enabling he holders of them to travel were also awarded. Professor Muneyoshi Yanagi of Kyoto. Japan, will come to Harvard to carry on special researches at Harvard. The Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts has been awarded to Miss Eleanor Patterson Spencer, a graduate of Smith College, while two Shady Hill Research Fellowships in Fine Arts were awarded to Miss. Anne Fitzgerald, A.M. Radcliffe '28 and to Chandler Rathfon Post '04, Professor of Greek and Fine Arts since...
...custom of the Emden to travel accompanied by a coal tender and, usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
Sirs: I can tell the Johnny Bulls one thing to "fix up"-the officers on their ships! I always travel on the French or Italian lines now, even when I'm on my way to England. I suppose there is no class of men with so much concentrated snobbishness, lordy-dordy and hoity-toity as the officers on British liners. When it comes to deck games they are the poorest sports I know-and brag the loudest about their sportsmanship. MATHEW GEORGIN...
...Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies. A. C. A.'s Hoyt, although he seems sequestered behind his Hayden, Stone & Co. desk, is kept hopping out of Manhattan on affairs of the four aviation concerns of which he is chairman - Wright Aeronautical, Keystone-Loening, Travel Air, Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American...