Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Porto Rico was the chronic economic distress of that square little island as a result of the 1928 hurricane. The big Hoover heart had been touched by Governor Theodore Roosevelt's description of the subnormal condition of Porto Rico's children. The second Chief Executive to visit the territory (the elder Roosevelt was there in 1906), President Hoover wanted to see things for himself, study rehabilitation...
...Since my last visit to this country eight years ago I have noticed a considerable exodus of professors and researchers from the universities to the patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course...
Only 18 per cent of the whole class have positions waiting for them when they graduate 107 men had seemed to visit A. L. Putnam '20, consultant on careers, before the time of sending in the questionnaire. As a means of securing a job, 229 students indicated then intention of registering with the Alumnu Placement Service...
These drawings illustrate the great variety of artistic activity that was taking place in Holland in the Seventeenth century. It was a time when no phase of Dutch life was too insignificant to find a place on their canvases. A suspicious wife, the visit of an amorous doctor, neighbors gossiping, a bit of landscape, friends playing cards, peasants drinking and quarreling, ships riding at anchor, a vase of flowers, all were depicted with great keenness of observation, sympathy, and consummate skill...
...with the 19th Illinois, was wounded, got to be a sergeant, saw his beloved brother killed. After the war he went back to the Gentry farm. Jonathan V, a farmer like his forbears, married a beautiful wife, but she was barren. When his lawyer brother came to visit, she fell in love; Jonathan would not see. When his brother came again, Laura tried to make him run away with her; he refused, and she killed herself by jumping out of his speeding car. Thus the Gentry line ended...