Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this period of planning courses for the second half-year, it is well to remember the privilege offered to students of the University of visiting courses in which they are not enrolled. The chance to hear valuable lectures by men of eminence in their particular fields is one of the greatest opportunities of college. Although the subject of a course may not appeal to a man, he will derive substantial benefit from contact with the professor; and he is here given free access to the lectures of many of the best known professors in the country...
Professor W.M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper Professor Emeritus of Geology in the University, leaves today to visit various island groups in the Pacific Ocean with the purpose of studying the coral reef problem. He will return next November...
During the outward voyage he will visit the Fiji and other islands; in August he will attend the colonial meeting of the British Geological Association in Australia; and in September a supplementary meeting organized by the government of New Zealand. On the return voyage, he will stop at the Society Islands. The trip is made possible by a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund...
When the Dean of the College gave his official consent to certain students who wished to visit Princeton on the day in question, he did so, and he supposed the students understood the matter, subject to the following condition, which is of long standing: "Neither the Office nor the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has power to excuse any student from any examination or other test that an instructor may wish to require." That is, the Dean meant that the Office would not discipline the students for the mere act of cutting or absenting themselves from Cambridge. Beyond...
...Smith 1L., Shaw Fellow in 1913, and past Social Service Secretary, has just returned from abroad filled with ideas and stories of the social work in Europe. A. F. Pickernell '14 will talk on the business of the entertainment troupes which visit the Boston settlements during the winter. W. B. Pirnie '15, present Social Service Secretary, will map out the work of the year and show specifically what the men have done...