Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
...most strenuous schedule that a Harvard court team has ever faced will begin on December 17, when the strong Boston University quintet will visit the University floor. This is the only tilt before the vacation, but the M. I. T. battle on January 8 will start the list of stiff engagements, which extends to March 5, when the season comes to its climax against Yale in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
...Harvard Union will provide the gridgraph its unique recording device for members not planning to visit New Haven. This device records the play by play action on the field almost simultaneously with its occurance...
...enthusiasm for the 'cause' of any army. The provincial war-lords carry on their operations at the expense of and therefore in spite of the people, and with the notable exception of Feng's Christian Army, never with their willing support. In Canton, during my three weeks' visit, things were very different. Parades, mass-meetings, continual rounds of demonstration revealed the interest of the city population in the approaching expedition against the North. Members of the labor unions and the Hongkong strikers volunteered for service with the army. The merchants and people of Canton had just over-subscribed...