Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contented faculty or a contented public will ever dream of. In such struggle there is little comfort and little pay--but in June when the future is all before one there should be no valid reason for failing at least to dream of the mountains and plan to visit them in the gray days of tomorrow...
Tomorrow brings to Cambridge the Crown Prince of Sweden, whose visit to this country has caused almost as great a publicity campaign as the inauguration of a new cigarette. He will see the Sargent murals, the glass flowers, and have the unusual pleasure of seeing Harvard adorned with a few of those ornaments known to Revere Beach--band stands and wooden fountains. Certain of the idle poor will follow him about to see whether Governor Smith was right in saying that he would make a good president, weren't he a prince. And one more will be listed...
...trouble with final examinations is that they are used and wielded by instructors as "big sticks," that instructors take advantage of this privilege in order to scare students into cramming a comprehensive review of a subject into their whirling brains, a process which makes the "visit" of the material endure for only the following twenty four hours...
...prince and his party will complete their tour of the eastern and New England states with their two day visit of Boston. On the day following his visit to the University the heir to the Swedish throne will take the train for Detroit via Niagara Falls, and will continue on through the middle and far western states. The most important engagement of the prince on the day following his visit to Cambridge, will be his attendance at the festival and reception to be given by the Swedish Old People's Home in West Newton Carl W. Johansson, the Swedish Consul...
Yesterday Prince Gustavus Adolphus left New York for his first visit to Yale University in New Haven. The royal party arrived on Mr. J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, and were entertained by President and Mrs. Angell at tea prior to a tour of the university including a trip to the Yale Field where the Prince was introduced to the members of the Yale baseball team. At 8.30 o'clock last night a special convocation was held, the fourth in the history of Yale University, and President Angell conferred an honorary degree of doctor of laws on the Swedish Crown...