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...burrowed with prying pencil among the secret archives of European Royalty, in the monumental task of discovering and listing all the illegitimate children of all the royal houses of Europe, a work which has earned him among his Viennese students the entirely unofficial degree of B. N. (Baccalarius Nothorum, "Bachelor of Bastardy...
...middle-aged bachelor, petulant and self-centered, is transformed by the appeal of his erring married sister into a chivalrous protector. But other interested parties inform him that he is being fleeced. Immediately all his charitable feelings turn to hate...
...Author. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a doctor who took to writing humorous pieces for Moscow journals to help defray the expenses of his unwieldy household. A bachelor, he had a larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow...
...change announced yesterday in the modern language requirements for the bachelor's degree of Columbia College is very much in line with the new attitude with which educators are regarding the place of languages in the college curriculum. Similar to the system now in vogue at Harvard, the new requirements emphasize the cultural value of French and German, relegating the purely technical aspects of language study to the secondary school where they rightly belong...
Died. Baron George Washington, 73, fifth cousin of the first U. S. President; near Graz, Austria. A retired Austrian Hussar officer, he refused to take up arms against the U. S. His last days were spent in his mountain castle, a bachelor, surrounded by six great hounds...