Scrapbook--British Education Mission, 1918

Documents Nichols's service on the British Education Mission, a committee of English educators who toured 40 of the leading colleges and universities in the United States from October to November 1918 "to confer on future relations of English and American universities." Nichols served as the secretary to vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley. The scrapbook contains photographs, menus, seating charts, clippings, tintypes, and a maple leaf that had fallen on George Washington's tomb. The scrapbook records not only Nichols's service on this transatlantic endeavor, his opinion of American journalism, and visits to many of the United State's major cities, but it also chronicles the tail-end of World War I, Nichols having been in the United States when armistice was declared in November 1918.