Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visit next fall will mark his first trip to this country, but, in spite of this, he has declined to travel about and will lecture only at Harvard. The courses which Professor Goldschmidt will give are considerably advanced in their scope and are intended primarily for graduate students...
...central aim, and it is this that makes it different from other tours, is hospitality. In almost every country a student of the country will travel with the group as guide and host. The members of the expedition will often stay in private homes and thus be in a position to be a members of a real foreign family. The students who arrange the program in each country are activated by patriotic motive and an interest in foreign peoles which belong to their educational tradition. The Tours will take three months and by spending a considerable time in one country...
...president of the Floating University, was to have rejoined it in the Mediterranean after leaving it at Panama, but who did not rejoin it, stated vaguely: "I had a personal and altruistic purpose in starting the university, and everything so far has worked out beautifully." Yet the University Travel Association announced that its next cruise would be for men only, and would be "more effective from an educational standpoint." And within the University Travel Association appeared a rift, a split. One A. J. Mclntosh, who helped organize the Ryndam's cruise, lamented Editor Allen's statement and announced...
FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT-Lucian Swift Kirtland-McBride ($3.50). World travel, which means "The Orient" to most people, is becoming so common that a book of this sort at one's elbow is apt to be disastrously intriguing to all who should stay at home. It costs, says Author Kirtland, just about $15 in gold for every day you are on shore in the Orient. For a decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair...
...crisp, discerning picture of what the East is now-not was 30 years ago when Aunt Florence was there-the book deserves a place on the bookshelf of even a confirmed domiciler. How many stay-at-homes, or travelers either, know that French Indo-China boasts a chief port (Saigon) which thoroughly deserves its nickname, "Paris of the East"? There you can sit at an iron café table, surrounded by boulevardiers who speak only French, for all the world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby...