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...Died. Augustus F. Kountze, 57, of Kountze Bros, (international bankers); at Atlantic City, of apoplexy. Recently his adopted son Leslie Bartindale Kountze, eloped and was still awaiting forgiveness...
...cast of "Gentlemen, the Queen," the Hasty Pudding Club show, will be headed by four veterans of last year's show, W. S. Wilson '27, George Higginson '27, C. E. Henderson '28, and Franklin Dexter Jr. '28, it was announced last night by Augustus Barratt, coach of the production...
Significant is the fact that the present royal House of Savoy has reigned for only 66 years over all Italy. The Imperial as opposed to the merely Royal tradition dates from Augustus* (B.C. 63-A.D. 14), the first Roman Emperor. The Byzantine Emperors reigned over Italy from 476; the Frankish Emperors from 800; the German Emperors from 962. But during all this time Italy had been breaking up into petty kingdoms; and from the 9th Century to the 19th "Italy" lost its meaning as a political entity and became a region of separate states-some free cities, some republics, some...
...Strictly speaking, his name was Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, and his title was Augustus (from "augeo," "increase") : the Illustrious, the Sublime...
With such entertainment to close the day, one looks about for academic pastime for the morning and afternoon. At 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall, Professor Conant will speak to Fine Arts 3b on "Roman Temples". Augustus found Rome of brick and left it of marble, and much of his building activity was devoted to carving shrines to the gods. Contrasted with the pure spirituality of the Greek temples, the religious structures seem the product of a more decadent age, but nevertheless, they offer to the eye and mind of a sympathetic student a subject worthy of some little attention...