He later moved to Milan where he served as Deputy United States Consul at Milan for several years . While in Italy , Ambassador Lloyd Carpenter Griscom dispatched Cutting to Messina following the 1908 earthquake to establish a consulate and where he was one of the first foreigners to arrive . Cutting " did much to relieve the suffering there . " In 1909 , he was appointed the Secretary of Embassy at Tangier , a city in northwestern Morocco that is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region . However , Harvard offered him a lectureship on British Colonial Government beginning in the fall of 1910 , and he , therefore , resigned as Secretary to prepare for his lecture . Cutting then traveled to Egypt to study the British Government there before planning on moving on to other British Colonies
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1908 Messina earthquake
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