Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...
...real object of my visit was to study and try to catalogue the sculpture of the Eighth century. This is chiefly centered around Nara, and so, using this town as headquarters, I managed to visit and inspect most of the temples and monasteries in the vincinity. I spent a great deal of time in the monastery of Horyuji. This is the oldest standing wooden building in the world. It was built in the Seventh century, and is a veritable treasure house for the most interesting and priceless of relics...
...Telford Erickson, director of the Albanian-American School of Agriculture and confidant of Ahmet Zogu, king of Albania, will speak this evening at 7.45 o'clock in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House. Doctor Erickson has just returned to the United States from a two months visit in this recently established European kingdom...
...more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received their education, free of charge, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris...
...great historic significance of Balfour's visit was the fact-now first indisputably established by the evidence of the House papers-that Wilson was made fully aware of the secret treaties upon which, rather than upon Wilson's ideal, the ultimate Peace Treaty was virtually based. Wilson's 1917 decision, fortified if not formulated by Colonel House, was that any discussion of the treaties would lead to a disagreement among the allies, and hence play into the hand of the enemy. Anyway, Wilson was sure that U. S. economic power was such that "when...