Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Herbert DeBray '02 of La Grange, Illinois, was drowned while bathing in the Platte river, Nebraska, last July. While in college DeBray was prominent both as a class debater and as a scholar.
On July 5th all the members of the expedition assembled in Sanders theatre and there listened to an address of welcome by President Eliot, immediately after which the teachers were divided into forty groups and assigned to class rooms in Sever, University and Harvard Halls.
The course of instruction offered to the Cuban teachers included recitations, lectures and excursions. English classes of about thirty members met twice a day including Saturday. Between the two lessons in English, lectures were given daily in Sanders Theatre. Among the subjects covered by the lectures were: Geography, U. S...
The teachers were received most hospitably by the residents of Boston and Cambridge. Receptions in their honor were held almost every week. Twice every week dances were held in the Gymnasium under the auspices of the various Roman Catholic societies of Boston and the vicinity.
On the evening of August 14, the day previous to the Cubans' departure, a farewell concert was held in Sanders, the Cubans rendering most of the music. There, on behalf of the Cuban teachers, Senor Ruiz Tamayo of Santiago presented to President Eliot a large loving cup, nearly two feet...