Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond was suffering from a slight attack of claustrophobia. Certainly the surroundings were enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that...
...first time since he has been President, Franklin Roosevelt paid a winter visit to his mother's house at Hyde Park. He spent a snowy Sunday driving about his farm...
...process by which Austrians began to breathe easier this week was progressive, .logical. They learned that Premier Mussolini, who is not anxious to have Germany swarm into Austria and thus jostle Italy, had inspired Dr. Schuschnigg's hurried visit to Herr Hitler. They reflected that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this...
...representative group, and therein lies its importance. Harvard's heterogeneous brood is scattered throughout the world. Thus, except for a brief splurge at their twenty-fifth reunion, far too few of this brood can ever get back to the old Yard or the new Houses for a visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread of contact with the University from year to year. This makes for a stronger Harvard, and for better graduates...
This will be the first of what is hoped to be triennial Regional Harvard Clubs Meetings, in order that delegates from Clubs that Conant cannot visit individually may hear the President and have some contact with the University...