Word: travels
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Four college men, from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, will be given this opportunity for travel in Europe. While the Harvard representative is chosen by an essay contest, the others will be the winners of popularity contests. The four will make the tour as members of a party composed mainly of undergraduates of men's and women's colleges...
Students from all over the world are attracted to Dr. Grenfell's mission, which has now been in activity for over 30 years. In 1892 Dr. Grenfell's attention was called to the poor living conditions existing among the thousands of fishermen who with their families and goods travel to the Labrador coast to fish for cod. In this large colony of fisher folk, however, there are no opportunities for medical or educational attention, and it was to meet this great need for medical service, that Dr. Grenfell equipped his first hospital, which took the form of a small schooner...
With this possible severance, might arise a difference in atmosphere. The wealthy classes, in whom there adheres a certain standard of culture and travel, would be, in effect, segregated; and the comparisons and adjustment of standards which goes on all through college would be restricted. College life of a state university, situated in a large city, would be essentially different from the intra-mural associations of a private college...
...Manhattan, Henry Heift, blackamoor, was arraigned for vagrancy. "What have you to say?" asked the judge. "I am the Chief Regent of the New Argentine Imperial," said Heift. "I am about to organize an expedition to travel into the solar system." He produced a copy of The Solar Path, prospectus written by himself. "With each copy of this I give away a bond redeemable for $20 in 1960. ... At a height of about 800 miles from here, there is a solid land, a new earth. There we will find riches and precious stones in abundance and we intend to claim...
...winner is lucky to be going stag", continued Mr. Holmes, who is married. "You can travel much faster that way. Another advantage of this mode of travel is that one can walk through the shopping district without having to buy everything in sight...