Word: insights
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Josiah Royce will deliver a series of lectures on "Sources of Religious Insight" at the Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, Ill., next week. These lectures, seven in number, are provided for by the Bross fund left to the Lake Forest University...
...main object of the lecturer will be to present a clear idea of the existing situation in Tripoli in regard to the Turkish-Italian War, with its causes and effects. In addition to this fundamental topic, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary Capitals, the focus of the great Saharan caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the half-civilized tribes who inhabit the deserts and tablelands of Tripoli. He will also talk on the life of the Grecian sponge-divers of the Mediterranean, and will describe the dramatic incident of the burning of the United...
...Sahara." The real purport of the lecture will be to present to the audience a clear idea of the existing situation in Tripoli in regard to the Turkish-Italian war, with its causes and effects. In addition to this fundamental topic, however, Mr. Furlong will give an insight into the most typical of the Barbary capitals, the focus of the great Sahara caravan routes, with pictures illustrating the primitive tribes who inhabit the oases and tablelands of Tripoli. The lecture is based on the evplorer's personal experiences, and the illustrations are, with few exceptions, from his own photographs...
Professor Bestelmeyer, entering upon his task with earnest enthusiasm and rare insight, has produced a plan remarkably consistent and simple and at the same time strikingly original. The Corporation have at once accepted it and authorized him to proceed with elaborating the working plans and specifications. In this Professor Bestelmeyer will be assisted by our own Professor H. Langford Warren, who all along has taken a keen interest in the Germanic Museum and to whose intelligent and expert advice we owe much. In the absence of Professor Bestelmeyer, the supervision of the construction of the building itself...
...annual reports of Dean Briggs on athletics invariably make good reading. They also evince a keen insight into the athletic situation at Harvard. Witness the following sentence: " * * * taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong with that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the over-taxed nervous systems of the University squads." Certainly, it would do no harm if this extract were printed on small pasteboards and entrusted to the captains and managers...