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...royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew, of the Elephant, of St. Hubert, and furthermore Commander of the Order...
...President appointed Porter J. McCumber, onetime (1899-1923) U. S-Senator from North Dakota, to the International Joint Commission; William D. Mitchell, St. Paul lawyer, to be Solicitor General (see CABINET) ; Albertus Hutchinson Baldwin to the Tariff Commission?, Allan Robinson to rep- resent the U. S. at the Building and Public Works Congress at Paris this month...
...Albertus University (Konigsberg), founded...
...announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel...
...Pierian Sodality announced yesterday that the following men had be elected members: Emery Nudd Cleave '23 of Chicago. III., Francis Xavie Grady Jr. '24 of Revers, John Wellington Laird '22 of Brockton, Roger Albertus Lutz '23 of Boston, James Smiley Murphy Jr. '25 of Brookline, Herman John Olt '25 of Dayton, Ohio, Henry Millard Stevens '25 of Cambridge, Charles Alfred Tierney '22 of Dorchester...