Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell replied to President Angell with a gravity that almost became emotional. He told his visitor to hold high the Yale-Harvard brand. Said he: "I am a great admirer of Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...
...only a grandmother now," said Marie of Rumania to a U. S. visitor not long ago with a resigned, gracious swish of her mourning veils. But last week everyone knew that Her Majesty hoped to be elected one of the three Regents of her grandson Boy-King Mihai, in succession to Regent George V. Buzdugan who died fortnight ago of uremia and inflammation of the lungs (TIME...
...London and Rome gifts last week brought Mr. Eastman a distinguished visitor, Dr. Florestan Aguilar, dentist to the Spanish royal family and president of the International Dental Federation, who like the Italian Ambassador traveled to Mr. Eastman's home at Rochester. Dr. Aguilar's visit presaged more Eastman dental clinics in Europe, the next one probably at Madrid...
Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself quietly in a corner, holding an umbrella. At length the President emerged from his cogitation: "What can I do for you?" "Have you ever considered the English house system here at Harvard?" asked the unobtrusive man. "Yes . . . too expensive." "How much?" "Oh, about three million dollars to begin...
...visitor to Peterborough today would find the colony well inhabited by artists who are asked to pay only a small resident fee. Artists, painters, sculptors, musicians, and literary men are gathered together in a central house which they leave each day to live in quiet, unfrequented cottages...