Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...placing this part of Widener Library at our disposal, and I must say that Cambridge and the College as a whole has contributed most generously to the organization. I find the box for old magazines in Harvard Square one of the best sources of securing material, for a visit to it nearly always is bound to result in a 'haul'. I also wish to thank most warmly the entire staff of the Widener Library for the invaluable aid they have given me since this office was established...
...looked ahead and wondered if America would ever have the chance to welcome this heroic figure to its shores. We found ourselves thinking of the glorious reception he would receive from a grateful people. And now Representative Julius Kahn states that Foch is making plans to visit the United States within a few months. His coming will give this nation an opportunity to show the famous soldier and his country that we realize our debt to them...
Each year the Board of Overseers holds a double meeting to consider some special phase of University activity here and to visit some special department. This year the "Relation of the college and the Students" will be the principal topic for consideration, and the Dean, Assistant Dean, Regent, Professor of Hygiene, Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, and the Chairman of the Athletic Association, as well as the Student Council will be called in to confer with the Board. The war work and military program of the University was the subject of discussion...
...Taft's visit to the University will offer us an opportunity that cannot be disregarded. The former president of the United States has agreed to lecture here on The League of Nations, the subject that for this country overshadows completely all the other issues of the day. For many centuries, idealists have been giving their lives to ensure lasting peace, but none of them have succeeded. The new Covenant may be faulty, but it may, if properly drawn up, abolish the curse of war. If it is worth anything at all, it is inestimably valuable to every country and citizen...
...college authorities have exhibited a great deal of sagacity in declaring a holiday on April 25th, the day of the parade of the 26th Division. Perhaps this is putting the cart before the horse, for, judging by the class-rooms on the day of Wilson's visit to Boston-a few ambitions scholars would be the only signs of college life in Cambridge...