Word: visits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the School of Landscape Architecture recently completed the first of their semi-annual trips, travelling to Philadelphia to visit private estates, study designs, investigate current work. In previous years the members of the School have gone to Long Island and the Berkshires: and next spring they will study work on the North Shore...
...Were a man from Mars, or the moon, to visit the earth, and ask us what we considered the highest form of human expression, we would answer, 'Poetry'. If he were to ask then what were the highest human ideals, we would reply, 'Truth and virtue'. If he were to be informed that our highest form of human speech was not designed for expression of our best ideals he would probably return to the moon with a strange idea of our earth, where we kept our best speech for our second best thoughts...
...recent visit of the British Prime Minister, besides paying the way for an international arms conference, has focused attention on the British Labour Party whose rapid rise to power since the war is generally so little understood in this country. The Vagabond has always held a rather confused idea of this party which has twice given Britain a socialist government. A mixture of lofty idealism and practical politics which seems to have succeeded in selling a left wing government to one of the world's most conservative communities certainly presents a fascinating subject. This morning the Vagabond intends to clear...
...Ramsay MacDonald's recent visit to this country was made with a view toward discussion frankly and openly the points at issue with regard to an Anglo-American understanding," he continued. "Agreement in principle between England and America is merely prerequisite to a larger international understanding, and no international naval disarmament could be successful until the differences between the United States and Great Britain had been smoothed...
...once, but twice he came upon paintings which surely were not in Fogg when the Vagabond paid his last visit to the museum in June. Both of these treasures are now the property of the University and both are deserving of every true Vagabond's interest...