Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreseeing the necessity of economics within the tutorial system if the need for faculty promotion of tutors is to be reconciled with the strained financial condition of the University, the Overseers Committee to Visit Harvard College has completed a report on the system which has just been published in the Alumni Bulletin...
...visitor to this, the world's richest university, can hardly escape a visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...
...orchestras burst into ''Springtime in Denmark- Lilacs in Bloom," the words by Madam Minister, music by her daughter, "Ruth the Second." As the cracker for her arrival Madam Minister announced that bushy-bearded Premier Thorvald ("Greenland for the Eskimos") Stauning of Denmark would accept an invitation to visit President Roosevelt in the White House next spring...
...Looking back upon the speculative era, we find that the follies of the day were not confined to any particular industry. ... Is it fair . . . to single out any one industry and visit upon it . . . alone a destructive punishment...
...Rockefeller and the other Chaselings began at San Antonio a seven-day inspection of Texas "conditions." There the party was joined by young Winthrop Rockefeller, who has been "roughnecking" in the oil fields for the Rockefeller Humble Oil & Refining Co. He boarded the car for a few days to visit with his brother Nelson, who is generally regarded as the heir-apparent to all his smart old grandfather's smartness. At Houston Mr. Aldrich confided to newshawks that a San Antonio press story made "it look as though the rest of us were merely accompanying my nephew, Nelson Rockefeller...