Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...gentle-hearted Charles is delightfully evident in Mr. Ladd's "Deductions from the Death and Burial of Two Pigs." A delicious phantasy this! We trim our leg-o'-mutton sail and are off for the El Dorado of Roast Pig--which is none other than Old Man Pratt's farmhouse, over to Grennell's Green. Son Jake greets us at the door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like...
...present day students in the University understand the extent or the character of the service rendered to the University by John Harvard. This Englishman set sail for Massachusetts in 1637, after he had gained the titles of "Bachelor" and "Master" in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. At once he settled near Boston in a district known at that time as Charlestowne and immediately became so interested in the college which had been established at Newtowne in the previous year by order of the General Court that he donated half of his estate, $3900, a large sum in those days...
Applications for the coming year should reach the secretary of the society not later than January 1st, 1921. Successful candidates will be expected to sail to France about July 1. Application blanks and further information will be furnished by the Secretary, Dr. I. L. Kamdel, 522 Fifth avenue, New York...
...visit to Cambridge already outlined will occupy the rest of Friday, while on Saturday morning General Fayolle will be taken to Camp Devens by General Shanks. He will return to New York shortly and sail on his return journey to France on October 13th...
Professor W. M. Wheeler, head of the Bussey Institute, and Professor I. W. Bailey, one of his colleagues, will sail on June 19 for the New York Zoological Society's research laboratory in British Guiana. They will continue work during the summer on the interrelation of insects and plants, especially in regard to the changes which occur when plants from the temperate zone are transplanted to a tropical environment. At the station will be 12 other biologists, among them being the research professors of the society and Professor Dahlgren of Princeton, who is at present studying the electric...