Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the next three days Scot MacDonald & entourage paid a spectacular swooping visit to Rome-Dictator Mussolini being probably the only person who might be able to win Dictator Hitler over to the British plan. Traveling on a special Italian train, the British party were startled near Arquata Scrivia when the electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort...
...Although I was under prison regime the conditions seemed to me better than those I witnessed once on a visit to Dartmoor. The cell to which I was taken . . . was really a moderately sized room, with table and bed but no chair...
Professor Piccard later delivered a talk in the Rice Institute of Geographical Exploration. During his short visit here, he was also the guest of honor at an informal dinner given by Theodore Lyman '97, Hollis professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at the Faculty Club. In his speech, Professor Piccard told the story of his two ascents. "The balloon was only partially filled with hydrogen, so that, as it ascended, it slowly assumed a spherical shape. We were forced to do away with netting, owing to the dangers from the pleats of the deflated balloon. Instead, the gondola was swung...
...culture and timeliness. With the exception of Economics A. the Department of Economics at Harvard is satisfactorily conducted. The tutorial system is excellent. Economics is more interesting when related to other subjects than when approached from the angle of pure theory. Its relation to other subjects, however, is particularly visit Personal initiative on the part of the student in selecting courses and arresting his schedule to include properly related subjects in other departments is an important factor in making Economics a successful choice
House Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...