Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Adams of the University of London will present two courses in education, "Comparative Education" and "The Philosophical Bases of Education," which will offer an opportunity for the study of education as presented in other countries. Courses in American history, entitled "The West in American Politics since 1865" and "New Points of View in American History" will be presented by S.J. Buck, visiting professor from the University of Minnesota. Professor M.Y. Hughes of the University of California is giving courses on "English Literature in the Sixteenth Century" and "Anglo-Saxon." Professor W.R. Mackenzie of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, will...
...annual spring trip of the show was made longer than those of previous years by a fairly extensive tour of the Middle West. Chicago was visited this year for the first time, and a total of six cities were included in the tour...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...
Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
...Washington will talk about the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Rumors run rife that the President and the First Lady are estranged since he acted so badly to her before the newspapermen on several occasions while in the West last summer...