Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Rene Viviani, vice-president of the Council of Ministers of France, and, with Marshal Joffre, head of the French Commission to this country, paid a hasty visit to the University yesterday afternoon. He arrived in Cambridge at 4 o'clock and went immediately to the residence of President Lowell, where he paid his compliments to the president and expressed his regret at not having been able to be present at the exercises on Saturday, and his consequent inability to receive the degree of doctor of laws which had been voted him. Because M. Viviani was not here personally, the vote...
Preparations for the University's reception of General Joffre, M. Viviani, and the other members of the French mission tomorrow afternoon are nearing completion, and every effort is being made to make their short visit to Cambridge a memorable one. In addition to exercises in Sanders Theatre and Memorial Hall, the French envoys will review the R. O. T. C. of the University in the Stadium, where an impressive ceremony will be held. The two first battalions, augmented by a hundred men from the four provisional companies, will participate in the parade...
...should send their contributions to A. Beane '11, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge. It has been considered advisable for the University to give its general contribution to increase the fund which is being raised throughout Greater Boston, rather than to make a separate gift to the French Marshal when he visit the University on Saturday. Those who have charge of the fund hope to raise at least $150,000 as a gift to express the appreciation of the people of Boston and New England for his visit, as well as to express sympathy for the suffering people of France. The entire...
...next week. The conference is to open at 10 o'clock on the morning of May 14 with the meeting of the Board in University Hall. Afterwards the Corporation and the Overseers will lunch with Professor and Mrs. A. G. McAdie at their residence in Milton. After luncheon a visit will be paid to the Blue Hill Observatory, of which Professor McAdie is the director, and a visit will also be made to the Bussey Institution and the Arnold Arboretum. That evening President Lowell will entertain the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers at dinner...
...remainder of the afternoon has been set aside for members of the Board to visit the various departments of the University in which they may be particularly interested...