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...provincial universities in France are all very much the same, since they are under the strongly centralized control of the Minister of Public Instruction, and are subsidized by him. Therefore it does not make much difference whether the American goes to Bordeaux, Lyons, Nancy, or Aix, although I should say in this particular that this is not true of Grenoble, since one also finds a great many foreigners and Americans matriculating there...
...unconventional Mr. Dawes has again performed the extraordinary. His dramatic failure to bring the good news from Ghent to Aix in the recent Senatorial fight over Warren's cabinet appointment will surely become history. There is a universal appeal in the thought of the picturesque President of the Senate abruptly terminating his slumbers; hastily adorning himself amid gentle remarks to an elusive garter or collar-button; writhing in a taxi with crimson face and twitching fingers: and addressing soothing epithets to a conscientious traffic-cop; bounding, three at a time, up the Capitol steps, slithering through its polished corridors...
...that two other French youths have received scholarships for study in the University. The fellowship established in 1917 in memory of Victor Emmanuel Chapman '13, who was killed in the world war, will be held this year by a former student at the University of Paris, Jean Walfender, of Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, who will continue his mathematical studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...itinerary for next summer begins with a week at Paris visiting Versailles, Rheims, and the nearby battlefields, and offering an opportunity to see the Olympic games. Lausanne will be the center of the next week's sojourn in Switzerland. From July 18 to 25 the party will visit Chamonix, Aix-les-Bains, Grenoble, Nice, and Monte Carlo by the "Route des Alps...
...next event of importance occurred when Separatists recaptured Aix-la-Chapelle, from which they had been driven a fortnight ago. After doing considerable damage to art treasures in the town they were suddenly confronted with a volte face from the Belgian authorities, who, having formerly supported them, ordered them out of the town to the intense relief of the civil population. Herr Doktor Matthes, leader of the Separatists, declared that he would come back to Aix with his troops, "Belgium or no Belgium...