Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itinerary will be as follows: Landing in Yokohama, the party will visit in Japan, Tokio, Niko, Kyoto, Kobi, and Nagasaki. Fujyama will be climbed. Thence the expedition will proceed to Korea, where Chemulpo and Seoul will be the points of greatest interest. Wild boar and tiger hunting will be engaged in here...
Bishop Brent, who is an Overseer of the University and a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Chapel, has had a notable career in church and national affairs. After being connected with St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, he came to the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Boston in 1880. In 1901 he became Associate Rector of St. Stephen's. Bishop Brent then became Bishop of the Philippine Islands for a number of years. He was twice elected Bishop of Washington and once Bishop of New Jersey, both of which bishoprics he declined to accept...
When Nurmi first came to this country, it was hoped that he might promoto a closer harmony and a deeper mutual appreciation between the United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
Then, there was a visit paid by Alexei Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of People's Commissars (Cabinet), to Trotzky in the Caucasus. There were long secret discussions between Rykov, Kamenev and Stalin (the last two, with Zinoviev, formed the so-called triumvirate, a body bitterly opposed to Trotzky). Suddenly Trotzky came back. Zinoviev departed. The Council of Commissars is to be reshuffled. Rumors say that Trotzky is to supplant Krassin as Commissar of Foreign Trade, Kamenev is to supplant Zinoviev as Chairman of the Internationale, "other employment" is to be found for Zinoviev...
Five Dexier scholarships, established to encourage young men to study English, and to enable them to visit Oxford, Cambridge and the cathedral towns of England, were awarded to the following students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Theodore Merryman Hatfield of Evanston, Ill., Edward Buell Hungerford A. M. '22 of New Britain, Conn., Robert Gale Noyes A. M. '23 of Norwich, Con., John Webster Spargo of Kirkwood, Mo., Arthur Sprague '19 of York Village...