Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This will not be Professor Taft's first visit to Cambridge, for he was a guest of the third-year class in the Law School two years ago speaking at a dinner in the Union. But it will be the first time that he has comes as a visiting lecturer...
Prominent among these is the Fogg Art Museum, which has just announced a special exhibit of famous paintings. A census of the students who will visit the Museum to see this collection, or, indeed who will visit it to see any collection, would undoubtedly bring out the fact that a pitifully small number of men are availing themselves of an opportunity which is at their very door. If there is a Harvard indifference, this is it, and in its worst form. Perhaps a better word for it is thoughtlessness...
...After visiting New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides during June and July in connection with his Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs...
Among the undergraduate speakers, S. B. Pennock '15 will describe boys' club work as he has found it during two years at the Roxbury Brotherhood House. R. H. Kettell '14 will speak on the business of the entertainment troupes from the University which visit the Boston and Cambridge settlement houses through the winter, while L. A. Morgan '17, social service secretary of Phillips Brooks House, will map out the work for the year. W. B. Pirnie '15, Chairman of the Social Service Committee, will preside...
Both American crews commanded much attention on their arrival in England. The Harvard eight, which rowed exceptionally well together, combined a slow, even recovery and a hard catch to such an extent that the critics immediately gave them serious consideration. The visit of two American eights did much to establish a more congenial relationship between English and American sports in general, rowing in particular. Friendliness and good-will were abundant, and the Harvard victory was popular beyond expectation. The visitors were treated like the English college eights, and every mark of courtesy and English hospitality was shown them. The response...