Word: visits
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...trip will be to examine the moraines and kettle holes in the vicinity of Plymouth. The effect of these glacial features on the colonial history of the region will be briefly discussed. In the afternoon, an opportunity will be given to see the town of Plymouth and to visit the Museum of Colonial Relics there. The walk will be open to all members of the University. Exclusive of lunch, the cost of the trip will...
...last meeting of the Board of Overseers, the resignation was received of Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, as chairman of the committee to visit the course of instruction in English literature. Colonel Higginson has been at the head of this committee for several years and has completed sixty-one years of service on this and similar committees. He was first appointed, in 1842, on the committee to visit the course of instruction in mathematics. This was during the administration of President Quincy and before Colonel Higginson was twenty years...
Professor N. S. Shaler will leave Cambridge on January 1 for a four months' trip abroad. He has not yet decided upon the route he will follow, but it is probable that he will visit Egypt. This will be the first time in 22 years that Professor Shaler has been absent from Cambridge for much more than a month...
...clock, by the Hon. Arthur K. Peck. Mr. Peck is a traveller of note in both Europe and America and has made a desirable reputation as a lecturer on places of interest in the western parts of the United States. This evening he will describe a visit to Custer's battlefield, the Sioux and Crow Indian reservations, horse-back trips with the cow-boys, explorations in the Bad Lands, digging fossil remains of pre-historic monsters, and many adventures unusual in accounts of travel in the Indian country. Among the interesting events he will mention are a journey into...
...Anagarika Dharmapala of Calcutta, India, spoke last night in the New Lecture Hall on "The Purpose and the Essential Teachings of Gotama Buddha." He was introduced by Professor C. R. Lanman of the Department of India Phiology. The Anagarika, who is now on his third visit to this country, told of the way Buddhism is misrepresented in the western world. He discountenanced the popular belief that Buddhism is a religion of pessimists, and explained how its concept came to the mind of Buddha. "Buddhism," he said, "is a sort of absolute psychology; it is the religion of absolute happiness...